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The Hindu05 Sep 2014
We were told by the local villagers that Jeerang was a place not to be missed, for it had one of the main monasteries of the region. But locating the monastery can be tricky if you miss the narrow road towards the right that leads to it ... A little ahead of this road lies one of the most spectacular and the largest monasteries of South-east India – the Padmasambhava Maha-Vihar ... The monastery has more than 200 monks....(size: 4.7Kb)
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noodls05 Sep 2014
Earlier the parish announced a fundraising campaign for aid to the Monastery of the Assumption in Svyatogorsk which gave asylum to over 700 refugees including the family of a priest who had been killed in the conflict, the website ......(size: 1.2Kb)
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The Examiner05 Sep 2014
In his prologue, author Michael Parenti lets the reader know his view of history will be against the mainstream. Much written history is an ideologically safe commodity ... xi). Parenti (b. 1933) holds a . from Yale University in political science ... This cannot be denied. Parenti sees a sinister reason for this. ... (p. 22) ... I’m sure Mr ... In upstate New York, there was a Russian Orthodox monastery founded by people escaping the Russian Revolution ... (p....(size: 5.1Kb)
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Kathimerini04 Sep 2014
... vehicles fell off a 70-meter cliff near the chapel of the Hilandari Monastery in Mount Athos on Thursday....(size: 0.6Kb)
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noodls04 Sep 2014
Steven Voytovich, Dean. Following the meeting Vespers will be celebrated in the Monastery Church of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, after which a picnic will be held in the seminary gymnasium. To RSVP, please contact Archpriest Joseph Gallick at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email ......(size: 1.5Kb)
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Boston Herald04 Sep 2014
The Schlenkerla tavern in Bamberg, Germany might be the best place in the world to drink house-made beer and savor Old World brewing tradition. It’s a 609-year-old family-run brewery taproom and beer hall in the heart of Bavaria’s Franconian beer lands. Sure, Oktoberfest kicks off next week in Munich, 140 miles to the south ... Another room has the vaulted ceilings of an old monastery. There is a small beer garden out back ... ....(size: 3.9Kb)
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National Geographic News04 Sep 2014
Portugal is made for wanderers. From the top of the Moorish remnants of Castelo de São Jorge, Lisbon cascades downhill in all directions, new paths beckoning at every turn. Surf camps dot the 215-mile stretch south of the storied capital city ... No visit to the capital’s Belém district is complete without sampling its famous custard tarts, pastéis de nata, said to have been first whipped up by 17th-century nuns at the Jerónimos Monastery....(size: 3.7Kb)
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Huffington Post04 Sep 2014
I once lived at a Zen monastery for a year. At 8 a.m. every morning, after an hour of meditation and the morning ceremony, it was "temple clean up" time. Teams were dispatched with mops and buckets to the cloisters, cupboards, common rooms, Master's vestibule, the Ceremony Hall and the Buddha's altar. Two teams were dispatched outside to weed the lawn and rabbit-proof the trees ... I was dispatched to clean the public toilets ... But no matter ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)