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A monk named Bunbuku serving Lord Higashiyama in Kyoto [o] captures an old raccoon dog by causing the creature to lower its guard by joining the monk in dance. Bunbuku and his comrades, the four tea monks, decide to butcher the creature and make it into soup ( suimono [ ja ] ). [ 50 ]
The north portal of the 12th-century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent Ragnarök. [1]In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (/ ˈ r æ ɡ n ə r ɒ k / ⓘ RAG-nə-rok or / ˈ r ɑː ɡ-/ RAHG-; [2] [3] [4] Old Norse: Ragnarǫk [ˈrɑɣnɑˌrɒk]) is a foretold series of impending events, including a great battle in which numerous ...
The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley. They consist of 12 books (or 14) of various authorship, date, and religious conception. The final arrangement, thought to be due to an unknown editor of the 6th century AD (Alexandre), does not determine identity of authorship, time, or religious belief; many of the books are merely arbitrary groupings of unrelated fragments.
Thus, a common worldly person can be a non-buddhist layperson or sage, a buddhist lay follower (an upāsaka), or a monk that has not attained any stage of awakening. [5] In contrast to them, a noble person (ārya-pudgala) has ended at least some of the fetters. [5]
Full Nun's Vows (bhikṣuni, gelongma) — 364 vows; Full Monk's Vows (bhikṣu, gelong) — 253 vows; Only full monks and full nuns are seen as full members of the Buddhist monastic order. A group of four fully ordained monastics is seen as a sangha. The prātimokṣa tells also how to purify faults, how to solve conflicts, and deal with ...
The monk jumped back. "Ah-ha!" said Ummon, "I see you are not blind!" Then he told the monk to come forward, which he did. "Ah-ha!" said Ummon, "I see you are not deaf!" Then he asked the monk if he understood what all this to-do was about. The monk said he did not. "Ah-ha!" said Ummon, "I see you are not dumb!"
Bernard the Pilgrim (fl. 865), also called Bernard the Wise (Latin: Bernardus Sapiens) and Bernard the Monk, was a ninth-century Frankish monk. He is most recognisable for the composition of a travelogue , in which he details his journey around the Mediterranean, travelling through Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land , and France.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso was born on July 19th, 1931, in Yangcho Tang, Western Tibet and named Lobsang Chuponpa. At eight years old, he joined Ngamring Jampa Ling Monastery where he was ordained as a novice monk and given the monastic name "Kelsang Gyatso" meaning "Ocean of Good Fortune".