All 12 Uses
monastery
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- 'One of us who had made pilgrimage to the Holy Places—he is now Abbot of the Lung-Cho Monastery—gave it me,' stammered the lama.†
Chpt 1 *
- 'And thus it was, O Fountain of Wisdom, that I decided to go to the Holy Places which His foot had trod—to the Birthplace, even to Kapila; then to Mahabodhi, which is Buddh Gaya—to the Monastery—to the Deer-park—to the place of His death.'†
Chpt 1
- Even as He went so go I, forsaking the ease of my monastery.†
Chpt 1
- The old man was used to the order of his monastery, and though he slept on the ground, as the Rule decrees, preferred a decency in these things.†
Chpt 1
- 'Yea—and farther from my monastery.†
Chpt 2
- 'Very fat; but I perceived in a little his mind was wholly given up to useless things—such as devils and charms and the form and fashion of our tea-drinkings in the monasteries, and by what road we initiated the novices.†
Chpt 11monasteries = the residences of religious communities
- That is for my monastery.†
Chpt 12
- The black high seats in the monastery, and novices all in order!'†
Chpt 12
- And he told stories, tracing with a finger in the dust, of the immense and sumptuous ritual of avalanche-guarded cathedrals; of processions and devil-dances; of the changing of monks and nuns into swine; of holy cities fifteen thousand feet in the air; of intrigue between monastery and monastery; of voices among the hills, and of that mysterious mirage that dances on dry snow.†
Chpt 12
- And he told stories, tracing with a finger in the dust, of the immense and sumptuous ritual of avalanche-guarded cathedrals; of processions and devil-dances; of the changing of monks and nuns into swine; of holy cities fifteen thousand feet in the air; of intrigue between monastery and monastery; of voices among the hills, and of that mysterious mirage that dances on dry snow.†
Chpt 12
- The old man's mind turned more and more to his monastery as his eyes turned to the steadfast snows.†
Chpt 12
- 'Beyond, where the hills lie thickest, lies De-ch'en' (he meant Han-le'), 'the great Monastery.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(monastery) the residence of a religious community
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)