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Be Free Where You Are, Parallax Press, 2002. ISBN 1-888375-23-X. My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk, Parallax Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1888375039. No Death, No Fear, Riverhead Trade reissue, 2003. ISBN 1-57322-333-6. Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World, Parallax Press, 2003.
Mahavira had 11 chief disciples, Indrabhuti Gautama being the most senior. [4] Each chief disciple was made responsible for 250 to 500 monks. [4] The Jain sangha (community) was led and administered by an organised system consisting of acharyas (leaders), upadhyayas (teachers), sthaviras (motivators of self-discipline), pravartakas (preachers) and ganis (leader of smaller groups of monks). [5]
The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The first Desert Father was Paul of Thebes, and the most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in AD 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism.
The Samguk yusa and Samguk sagi record the following 3 monks who were among the first to bring Buddhist teaching, or Dharma, to Korea in the 4th century during the Three Kingdoms period: Malananta – an Indian Buddhist monk who came from Serindian area of southern China's Eastern Jin Dynasty and brought Buddhism to the King Baekje of Baekje in ...
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom. [3] It is one of the largest libraries in the world.It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries.
Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light.It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575–585 nm.It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing.
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Bermuda (/ b ər ˈ m j uː d ə /; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about 1,035 km (643 mi) to the west-northwest.