The lake is also home to historical monasteries and churches.

This caloric structure partly reflected the high class status of late Medieval monasteries in England, and partly that of the Westminster Abbey, which was one of the richest monasteries in the country diets of monks in other monasteries may have been more modest.

They have attacked monasteries and arrested monks and nuns by force.

It has a greater than average number of churches and monasteries.

The most severe destruction has been suffered by churches and monasteries.

Some 150 Orthodox churches and monasteries have been destroyed or irreparably damaged.

This powdered green tea was first used in religious rituals in Buddhist monasteries.

Catholic monasteries during the Middle Ages also regularly used wine for medical treatments.

After Egypt was Christianized, it became famous for its many churches and monasteries.

A change in the colleges' focus occurred in 1536 with the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Monasteries and temples were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution (often with the help of Tibetan Red Guards).

It was the site of several Buddhist monasteries, and a thriving center for religion, philosophy, and art.

The Government and UNMIK are committed to achieving progress in the reconstruction of certain Orthodox churches and monasteries.

For the same reason, the construction of churches and restoration of monasteries as cultural and historical monuments has stopped.

The Serbian Orthodox Church has several hundred churches, monasteries, parochial homes and other institutions both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

An amazing collection from the many monasteries scattered in the mountainous deserts of Syria, like the impressive Mar Mousa Monastery

They may control the streets and monasteries, but they will never be able to control our hearts and our determination.

Monasteries and temples are exploited as tourist attractions, while government agents try to ensure that the monks stay in line.

The Bulgarian churches and monasteries, apart from those declared Serbian, are in wretched condition, some of them being in ruins.

Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The counts and large monasteries took the lead in these efforts, building the first heavy emergency dikes to bolster critical points.

They have also been unable to create monasteries and missions, for the purpose of realizing certain essential tenets of their religion.

As a result, his Red Guards destroyed ancient books, priceless antiques, monuments across the land, and nearly all Buddhist monasteries in Tibet.

Approximately 40,000 Serbian homes have been demolished or set on fire, as well as 150 churches and monasteries that were centuries old.

Monks from Mandalay monasteries including those from ThaTaNa monk college marched for protest and were blocked at 42nd street by soldiers of 33 battalion.

In 1870, he toured the Tur Abdin region and recorded the names of villages, monasteries, churches, clergy and the families living in the area.

In recent nights, the junta s henchmen have burst into monasteries, lined up sleepy monks, and smashed their shaved heads against the walls, spattering them with blood.

Consider, first, that Kosovo is the historical heart and religious soul of Serbia. Hundreds of Serb Orthodox churches, monasteries, and holy sites in Kosovo attest to this.

Each valley is guarded by a dzong (fortress), which includes monasteries and temples, all dating back centuries and exhibiting a masterful combination of sophisticated architecture and fine arts.

The same fate has befallen 801 individual monuments of culture, out of which 510 are sacral buildings 468 churches and 42 monasteries and 350 historic sites and settlements.

Through the Republican administration for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, the Republic of Serbia provides considerable financial assistance for the protection of churches and monasteries and other religious institutions.

He was abbot of Samye, one of Tibet's most important monasteries and the first Buddhist monastery established in the Himalaya, but spent most of his life travelling or in retreat.

They were of particular value for monasteries, because newborn rabbits were allegedly declared fish (or, at least, not meat) by the church and therefore they could be eaten during Lent.

Not having been granted the status of a religious association, the authors and their fellow believers cannot invite foreign clerics to visit the country, or establish monasteries or educational institutions.

The right of a religious community to establish monasteries, educational institutions, or missions, and to invite foreign religious figures to speak, has been sharply restricted by the government of Belarus.

There are assumptions that he could be hidden in monasteries in Serbia, Montenegro or Republika Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina, or even that he could have disappeared in other countries.

As European civilization transitioned away from empires and towards religion, monasteries became the gatekeepers of knowledge, which meant that classical books that praised physical pleasures were not copied or protected.

The report should also have included data on 150 demolished, burned down Serbian churches and monasteries, 60 of which, being sites of the highest importance, enjoy a high level of protection.

He came to Constantinople, led an ascetic life in one of its monasteries, then came back to his fatherland before spending some time in the region of Antioch, then back in Lycia.

In the last few weeks, that resentment boiled over, first in the monasteries, and then in the streets, against the Han Chinese migrants, who are both the agents and main beneficiaries of rapid modernization.

Troops from the United States, Italy, France and other countries should be given credit for keeping the Serbian Christian monasteries designated or nominated as international world heritage sites from being blown up or set on fire.

At the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th, new monasteries were established in the city, including a Capuchin monastery (1608), another on Bisemberg (1621), an Ursuline monastery (1634), and a Visitandine monastery (1635).

He would have done justice to truth if he had said that Bosnian Croats cleansed western Herzegovina of Serbs, destroyed their churches, monasteries and all traces of the centuries long existence and culture of Serbs in that region.

In monasteries, the basic structure of the diet was laid down by the Rule of Saint Benedict in the 7th century and tightened by Pope Benedict XII in 1336, but (as mentioned above) monks were adept at working around these rules.

Serbia and Montenegro demands a European level of human rights protection for national communities in Kosovo, protection of churches and monasteries and recognition of the European status of the existing State borders with the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Albania.