...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This article tells the story of an early 16th-century ceramic horn and its journey from its production site in the Weser Uplands, Germany, to the remote Augustinian monastery at Skriðuklaustur in eastern...

... organorum (organ-player) of the Benedictine monastery of Dover Priory, 1530–31. The account that records his engagement there discloses also some indication of the musical resources, in terms of an organ and five or six singing-boys, that were placed at his disposal in this appointment, while study...

... to the introduction of ‘new and unknown forms of life’ in the seventh century. These new forms of life include the practice of lifelong virginity and the creation of households which reproduced through social rather than biological means. household family monastery mutation reform Despite common perceptions...

... of Reichenau language Greek Latin letter exchange monastery grammar glossaries teaching missa graeca Language is an essential factor in the creation and maintenance of a community. In the tenth century, Constantine VII, in his De administrando imperio, addressed this connection...

...If the endeavour to assert the primacy of Canterbury was one aspect of Lanfranc's renewal of the mother church of the kingdom, a second and complementary concern was with the primatial see itself. In addition to his building work in the cathedral and cathedral monastery of Christ Church, Lanfranc...

... on the life story and noble virtues of the female lay disciple, Vishākhā. It records her marriage into a wealthy merchant family and her unwavering devotion to the Buddha. The remainder of the chapter records Vishākhā's selling her personal jewelry to raise the funds to build one of the great monasteries...

...The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study—to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution...

... between Jerusalem and Constantinople. Christological controversies played a role in defining Christian communities in Jerusalem, but it was contact between the monks from St Sabas Lavra in Palestine and the monks from the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople that left a lasting mark on Jerusalem’s liturgy...

... conclusion is that Dōgen did not attempt to duplicate the Chinese model in rural Japan, but instead “adjusted it to the Japanese context” by taking local social, political, and economic conditions into account. These differences in the structural layout of the monasteries underscore the conclusion drawn...

...Scottish fiction about the Reformation is concerned with the mechanics of historical change, which are rendered through a series of enchanted books and people discussed in Chapter 8. In the novel, The Monastery, describing the Dissolution and Reformation, Scott gothicizes the Bible...

... who have created institutions, Asian immigrants and Westerners, are highlighted. The former have transplanted monastery temples similar to their home countries; the latter have focused almost exclusively on establishing meditation centers drawing on indigenous teachers, and spiritual traditions, from...

...The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle. Christopher Bell, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0005 Chapter 4 broadens its focus on Nechung Monastery’s ritual activities and annual calendar by exploring month-by-month...

... Vikramacarita Vikramaditya Christian ity Dao ism karuna Buddhadasa Bhikkhu monk s shunyata sunnata syncretic uposatha Buddhist day of observance emptiness shunyata entertainment universal Diamond Sutra Heart Sutra Mahayana Great Vehicle meditation monastery Phrahomkhunphon Phra sutra sutta...

... from one monastic center to another in order to teach themselves in monastic life. Cassian and his companion traveled to Egypt in hopes of visiting the famous holy men dwelling in the depths of the Theban desert after their initial training in a monastery in Syria. Egeria Itinerary Helpidius holy man...

...Apa Abraham was the fourteenth bishop of the diocese of Hermonthis. He was first a monk in the Monastery of Apa Phoibammon (Dayr Apa Phoibammon), which is located at a remote site between Armant and Madinat Habu and lay west of Qurna, about five miles from the west bank of the Nile. The new...

...Many activities during the last fifteen years have been carried out to discover or conserve the Coptic murals. These activities have been sponsored by Dutch, French, Polish, and American (ARCE) missions. The Monastery of St. Antony (Dayr Anba Antunius) also had a great chance for the conservation...

...This chapter discusses one of the most elaborate pictorial narratives on Buddha's nirvana from the medieval China of the Dayun Monastery in Yishin governed by Empress Wu. This stele was moved to the local Confucian temple and later to the provincial museum in Taiyuan. Its compositional program...

... to being a surface décor on some of the metal and stone containers in the deposit assemblage, the nirvana motif also figured prominently in the underground structures respectively at Jingzhi Monastery and Jingzhong Cloister in the form of painted murals. It discusses the viewership and the very act...

...This introductory chapter discusses the main themes covered in the book, which is the result of some fifteen years of research at Mergen Monastery in Urad. Its main framework follows eight successive visits to the monastery between 1992 and 2009. The book weaves together two time frameworks...

... one way or the other. Duke Galdan is one of several people in this book whose particular temperament steered their actions, and hence affected the wider direction of events at Mergen. Cultural Revolution Galdanwangchugdorji Duke Galdan Güng Monastery monastery of the dukes Manchu Qing Empire self...