Antonym: nun. Similar words: monkey, money, month, among, lemon, salmon, hormone, in common. Meaning: [mʌŋk] n. 1. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work 2. United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982).
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121 Precepts should be requested from a left - home person -- an ordained monk.
122 It all boils down to respect. A monk cannot disrespect the layperson by refusing their food. And so, he must eat the food, whatever it happens to be.
123 He had put on the ochre robe of a monk and was in an exalted state of mind, always indrawn .
124 He became an Augustinian monk and practised such asceticism that his health was impaired.
125 Today hundreds of childless Bhutanese couples make pilgrimages to the "fertility temple, " Chimi Lhakhang, where a Buddhist monk blesses them with a wooden phallus.
126 Father William McNamara, a Carmelite monk, used to talk about "Holy Leisure," the great art of accomplishing nothing, and it's concomitant, appreciating everything.
127 But meditation is a much broader term than many people realize, and the reverential monk image respresents only a minute fraction of what the world of meditation actually consists of.
128 The friendly monk thought for a while and then gave his answer. "It can be cold in any phase of the moon, from new to full and back to new again."
129 The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters small and large.
130 In fact,he capitalizes on the erotic and even turns it into the homoerotic because he's asking the monk to identify with the body of the girl and to yearn for this male bridegroom.
131 The Buddhist monk walked to the sutra depository leisurely and opened the shutter. People prayed downstairs.
132 Is that your response, Mr Hutch? Or should I call you the Monk?
133 Devote time to sitting . In the life of a Zen monk, sitting meditation (zazen) is one of the most important parts of his day.
134 "Walking is the best way to get out of your head," said the monk, Thomas Merton.
135 In The Canterbury Tales(sentencedict.com), Geoffrey Chaucer uses the Wheel of Fortune to describe the tragic fall of several historical figures in his Monk’s Tale.
136 The greatest historian of the early Middle Ages was an English monk named Bede.
137 The princess is married to the prince. The nun has given birth to a monk.
138 He was tired of the pageantry of the noble family and decided to be a monk.
139 Middlelate Tang Dynasty a peculiar colony has appeared in calligraphy circles - Cursive script monk.
140 They include a nonagenarian war-hero, Vo Nguyen Giap, a dissident monk, Thich Quang Do, and a slew of leading scientists and environmental campaigners.
141 Two years before the Darwin - Wallace paper, an obscure Austrian monk by the name of Gregor Mendel had started work on crossbreeding varieties of peas.
142 The monk who cultivated himself diligently and saw the debauch as harmful , walks like the flames destroying all the bondage.
143 Alpine boarded the monk , beautiful mountain town into the fundus to do.
144 My goal is not to turn you into a monk or a cabin - dwelling misfit.
145 These words do not speak with the Laity, Laity listened to a monk.
146 "What I see as the main challenge today is protecting the Sri Maha Bodi (or sacred fig tree) from macaques and monkeys[sentencedict.com], " the monk said.
147 One of my all-time favorite jazz pianists is Thelonious Monk.
148 Then he was ordained a monk and gave up his kingly life.
149 The major breakthrough came from the careful work of Austrian monk and naturalist Gregor Mendel.
150 Roger Bacon, a monk, was one of the earliest advocates of scientific research.
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