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monks

  1. Men under religious vows who live in a community and whose work is usually centered on their community, which is called a monastery. Buddhism and Christianity have notable groups of monks. In Christianity, the monks are members of religious orders .


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Nicky used to work as a chef at the Lake Shrine, cooking for the monks and lay people at the retreat center.

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Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed.

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The monks were great company and bracingly undogmatic; they were confident each of us would find what we needed here, whatever names we chose to give to it.

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Spectators don their finest fancy dress: There are monks and nuns, bananas and vegetables, traffic cones and dart boards, cartoon characters and Vikings.

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But it was destroyed after the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536, when the last abbot and three monks were executed.

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