Word: monasticism
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Over the weekend, I amassed several new paperbacks and a couple of hardcovers, all now resting snugly on my bookshelf and tempting me to spend time with them. I had forgotten how much I missed the atmosphere of a bookstore after being cooped for days in smelly Cabot or on...
Khyentse Norbu was born in 1961 in eastern Bhutan to a Bhutanese mother and a Tibetan high lama father. His paternal grandfather had also been a lama. So no one in the family was too surprised when, at the age of seven, Khyentse Norbu was approached at his Jesuit elementary...
Old Stalin caused religious frictions: He, spiting monastic traditions, Forced tearful farewells: Monks gave up their bells And melted them down for munitions.
Davis isn't a monk, but his music requires monastic focus. To make his trippy new art-rock album, The Private Press (MCA), he spent 15 months alone in his California basement trying to match the unmatchable edges on thousands of vocal, drum and instrumental samples, and then turn them...
No one knows exactly what the impact a surplus of tens of millions of men will be on society. Sociologists predict that both military and monastic life will become more popular. But these institutions will only be able to soak up a limited number of men, and the government fears...