All 22 Uses
monastery
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Lord of Light
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- It was in the season of the rains ....It was well into the time of the great wetness....It was in the days of the rains that their prayers went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday.†
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- He tended the pray-machine, and the giant metal lotus he had set atop the monastery roof turned and turned in its sockets.†
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- Below them, in the cavernous cellars of the monastery, the signal was received and other preparations were begun: the host was made ready.†
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- There was a tower, a high tower rising from the northeast comer of the monastery.†
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- Mounting the monastery roof, he proceeded to scale the tower, moving from brick to slippery brick, from projection to irregularity, the heavens growling doglike above him, until finally he clung to the wall just below the outer sill.†
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- "My monastery," answered Ratri.†
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- Find him strong drink to drink-there is none here in the monastery.†
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- A wave of grayness covered over the monastery.†
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- In the future, I suggest you annoint yourself thoroughly if you intend venturing very far from the monastery.†
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- "Almost, though," Yama decided, and that night he squirted demon repellent about the monastery.†
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- The following morning, a small man approached the monastery and seated himself before its front entrance, placing a begging bowl on the ground at his feet.†
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- She generally moved about the monastery while her followers were at prayer or after they had retired for the evening.†
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- "Indeed," said Balarma, "we should be honored if a holy one were to see fit to bless our monastery with his presence.†
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- "Nevertheless," said the monk, "all life being one, in this monastery all do practice the doctrine of ahimsa and refrain from taking life of any sort."†
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- The four of them sat in the chamber in the high tower that rose from the northeast corner of the monastery.†
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- They would not ravage the monastery of a fellow god, displaying before men the division of their ranks-not unless they were certain.†
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- "Lord Yama," he stated, "while it may hold for a week, a month — possibly even longer-this story will come apart in the hands of the Master to judge the first of any of those here present in this monastery who pass within the Halls of Karma.†
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- They saw Mara do the same-here, in this monastery where we have revived the principle of ahimsa.†
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- The monastery from which they had departed was only partly visible above the upper reaches of the treetops; high in the air above it, a twisting line of smoke endorsed the heavens.†
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- It flashed above the peaks of the mountains, crossed over the monastery, whipping the smokes into invisibility.†
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- On the last occasion, it circled the monastery, possibly observing the funeral rites being conducted there.†
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- To be safe, though, practice every night in front of a mirror with that esthetics lecture you gave back at Ratri's monastery.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(monastery) the residence of a religious community
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)