monastery

Local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks. Christian monasteries originally developed in Egypt, where the monks first lived as isolated hermits and then began to coalesce in communal groups. Monasteries were later found throughout the Christian world and often included a central space for church, chapels, fountain, and dining hall. In the Middle Ages they served as centres of worship and learning and often played an important role for various European rulers. The vihara was an early type of Buddhist monastery, consisting of an open court surrounded by open cells accessible through an entrance porch. Originally built in India to shelter monks during the rainy season, viharas took on a sacred character when small stupas and images of the Buddha were installed in the central court. In western India, viharas were often excavated into rock cliffs. See also abbey.

monastery

the residence of a religious community, esp of monks, living in seclusion from secular society and bound by religious vows

monastery

A building complex of a monastic order.

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No references found	In Lost Horizon the Lamasery was peopled with monks of high intellectual powers who carded on their lives of scholarly research and writing like a group of Dons in a type of Oxford University. Watkin Tench, La Perouse and Lost Horizon by Crittenden, Victor / M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia To take what's probably his most famous photo, of a Tibetan lamasery at the end of a rainbow, Rowell had to run some distance after spotting the arc to line things up just right. From the editor by Clarke, Chris / Earth Island Journal The monks, a mixture of Han Chinese and Tibetans, have travelled from the dusty, multi-ethnic town of Xiahe in Gansu - a brooding, distant place on a plain 3,000 metres above sea level, where the breathtaking golden roofed buildings of the Labrang Lamasery enliven the skyline. Monks' mystical music echoes in the mountains by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)	Lama Lama, Luciano Lamachus Lamaism Lamanon Mountains Lamanov, Ivan Lamanov, Ivan Ivanovich Lamanskii, Vladimir Lamanskii, Vladimir Ivanovich Lamar Lamar County Lamar, Joseph R. Lamar, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamara Chkoniia Lamara Grigorevna Chkoniia Lamarck Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, knight de Lamarckism Lamarque, Jean Maximilien Lamartine Lamartine, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de lamasery Lamashtu Lamassu lamb Lamb County lamb dysentery Lamb of God Lamb Pelt Lamb shift Lamb wave lamb's ears Lamb's Wool lamb's-quarters lamb's-tongue Lamb, Charles Lamb, John Lamb, Joseph Lamb, Lady Caroline Lamb, William Lamb, Willis E., Jr. Lamb, Willis Eugene Jr. lamb-blasts Lamb-Retherford Experiment Lamb-shift source lamb-showers lamb-storm	Lamarckian Lamarckian evolution Lamarckian evolution Lamarckian evolution Lamarckian inheritance Lamarckian inheritance Lamarckian inheritance Lamarckianism Lamarckianism Lamarckianism Lamarckians Lamarckism Lamarckism Lamarckism Lamarkism Lamarkism Lamarkism Lamarque, Jean Maximilien LAMARS Lamartine Lamartine Lamartine, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamas Lamas Lamas Lamas lamaseries lamaseries lamasery Lamashtu Lamassu Lamastu Lamay Lamay Lamay Lamay Lamaz Lamaz Lamaze Lamaze Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator Lamaze method Lamaze method Lamaze method Lamaze method Lamaze method of childbirth Lamaze technique Lamaze technique lamb lamb lamb lamb lamb lamb Lamb (food) Lamb (in Early Christian Symbolism) Lamb (in Early Christian Symbolism) Lamb (meat) lamb bed

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In Lost Horizon the Lamasery was peopled with monks of high intellectual powers who carded on their lives of scholarly research and writing like a group of Dons in a type of Oxford University.

Watkin Tench, La Perouse and Lost Horizon by Crittenden, Victor / M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia

To take what's probably his most famous photo, of a Tibetan lamasery at the end of a rainbow, Rowell had to run some distance after spotting the arc to line things up just right.

From the editor by Clarke, Chris / Earth Island Journal

The monks, a mixture of Han Chinese and Tibetans, have travelled from the dusty, multi-ethnic town of Xiahe in Gansu - a brooding, distant place on a plain 3,000 metres above sea level, where the breathtaking golden roofed buildings of the Labrang Lamasery enliven the skyline.

Monks' mystical music echoes in the mountains by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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