Which means that we opened more than 900 monasteries in less than 30 years and each of these monasteries are filled with monks and nuns.
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We visited and meditated at many monasteries around the country.
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Monasteries, they fear, are no longer as alluring as malls.
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We visited and meditated at many monasteries around the country. pic.twitter.
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Monasteries throughout China have, in effect, been turned into tourist attractions.
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Vapers spend more time vaping than people in monasteries spend praying.
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Two years later, she was painting murals in churches and monasteries.
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Production by Ayumi Konishi Related: Seeking Solitude in Japan's Mountain Monasteries
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They built monasteries all over British Isles and the European continent.
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In a statement last week, it suspended admission of novices to its monasteries for a year, threatened to expel monks found to have established "illegal" monasteries and gave monks a month to shut down social media accounts.
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We had, in 2000, 22 monasteries for the entire Russian Orthodox church.
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"Most of the displaced people are taking shelter in monasteries," he said.
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Buddhism, no more Taoism, there are no monasteries, no painting and no music,
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In the Middle Ages monasteries were what would now be termed social enterprises.
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Trappist monasteries in the United States are likely to consolidate, Father Stan said.
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Monasteries also struggled as emergency areas and cemeteries opened in the larger cities.
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Even further removed is the complex of monasteries known as Meteora in Greece.
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"It's fascinating how connections to our Christmas today, can be traced back almost a thousand years and despite Henry VIII's violent suppression (of the monasteries during the English Reformation), these great monasteries are still giving up their secrets", Carter added.
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At one time, Qadisha was home to hundreds of hermitages, churches, caves and monasteries.
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Its many monasteries and pilgrimage sites date back to the earliest years of Christianity.
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He and his group also traveled and mediated at different monasteries around the country.
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They were concentrating their activities on the lootable monasteries and villages of coastal Europe.
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Since the unrest in 2008 the authorities have opened them in many more monasteries.
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From the Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in northern India to our family dinners in NYC.
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The church also banned visits to monasteries and closed condolences halls attached to churches.
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The church also banned visits to monasteries and closed condolences halls attached to churches.
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Visit the great Norman monasteries in England and tell me this is not so.
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China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries, who also leased land to farmers.
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Seeing them now rebuilding temples and monasteries, worshiping the gods, worshiping Confucius, it's so ironic.
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But he also said that he frowns on affluent travelers taking advantage of welcoming monasteries.
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I passed three monasteries, wedged into rocky nooks, built between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Collectively, the monasteries play host to an average of 1,200 people nightly, all without charge.
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Inside are 'bare ruin'd choirs' as Shakespeare wrote of the destroyed monasteries in his time.
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Ulaanbaatar was also considering restricting activities at monasteries, churches, restaurants and bars, the mayor added.
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The monasteries have survived some 2,000 years of destruction, both from humans and natural disasters.
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The monasteries are "living witnesses of Armenian religious traditions through the centuries," according to UNESCO.
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Throughout history, in monasteries and museums alike, there has been a certain sanctity to stuff.
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Some of the most popular Jewish documents that were highly circulated among Jews in the ancient world were preserved in monasteries that thrive to this day: St. Catherine's monastery in the Sinai Desert, and the twenty monasteries on the Greek peninsula of Mount Athos.
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So instead, he took photos at two Benedictine monasteries in England: Downside Abbey and Buckfast Abbey.
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"This crime restores the human side of life in monasteries that many appear to have forgotten."
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England's King Henry VIII used corruption charges against his powerful minister Cardinal Wolsey and the monasteries.
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Pastors hold services in churches overlooking the waters, while Tibetan lamas perform rituals in hilltop monasteries.
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It decorates the papal regalia, spires, domes and minarets of temples, churches, monasteries and mosques worldwide.
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Before that, the Catholic Churches monopolized knowledge, with their handwritten Latin manuscripts locked up in monasteries.
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Long-neglected fortresses, monasteries, palaces, and other historic buildings have been updated with all modern conveniences.
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The royal family has eight royal palaces, five royal county residences, and ten monasteries and convents.
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The church also banned visits to monasteries and closed condolences halls attached to churches, it added.
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Monasteries, he thought, were the dumping grounds for those deemed unfit for life in the world.
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Traditionally, Sattriya — which was developed within the Krishna-worshipping, all-male monasteries of Assam — excluded them.
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Buddhist monasteries that dot the landscape are a reminder of ties to its eastern neighbor, Tibet.
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They raided as far as the Mediterranean and left monks in coastal monasteries quaking in their cassocks.
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As early as 1948, it harvested intelligence on Bangkok's Vietnamese monasteries to monitor for potential communist links.
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More than half of Japan's monarchs have vacated the throne, often for quiet retirement at Buddhist monasteries.
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The unique landscape of Bagan is home to sacred Buddhist art, monasteries, and places of religious pilgrimage.
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Monasteries sell their own line of products, including wine, olive oil, herbal teas and even body creams.
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Buddhism was strong in China's prosperous south but had no major, socially active monasteries in the north.
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"At the time, no one cared as nobody cared about churches and monasteries during communism," said Kakachia.
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As you push farther south, and mosques begin to mingle with monasteries, time and tourism seem distant.
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Villagers have been evacuated to temporary shelters that have been set up at monasteries and religious buildings.
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It's a good place to stay when visiting the painted monasteries for which the region is known.
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During the reign of Henry VIII, the abbey was a casualty of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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Mysterious hordes of itinerant pirates have repeatedly attacked the monasteries of a sprawling quasi-Holy Roman Empire.
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Ladakh's economy, traditionally dependent on farming, has benefited from tourists visiting ancient monasteries and trekking up mountain peaks.
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Do the references to "bare ruined choirs" suggest a suppressed Catholic nostalgia for monasteries despoiled by Henry VIII?
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In 2003 it had more than 40 churches and monasteries at the time of the Allied forces' invasion.
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So, too, has the government complex, all the schools and the medieval alleyways lined with madrassas and monasteries.
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Authorities have placed armed guards outside churches and monasteries in an attempt to protect them from jihadist attacks.
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"After the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, the main abbey building was demolished," Ms. Lee said.
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Mao tested them in airstrikes at three Tibetan monasteries in Sichuan, starting with Jamchen Choekhor Ling, in Lithang.
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Kosovo has long been called "Serbia's Jerusalem" because of the important medieval monasteries, like Gracanica, within its borders.
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Their history dates back to the wafers baked for Mass in the medieval monasteries of the Low Countries.
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It does mean, however, that a chatty workplace (most workplaces, save silent-vow monasteries) can be a challenge.
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He was responsible for the destruction of monasteries and relic-laden cathedral alcoves, transferring wealth to the crown.
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Families that can't afford to take care of their sons send them to monasteries or Muay Thai gyms.
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Here, in the cradle of civilization, the building is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world.
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But there are particular places where it really lives and breathes: in wildernesses like Mr Hempton's; in some monasteries.
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Photos showed militants vandalizing monasteries and churches, smashing statues and replacing the cross with their black flag of terror.
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Subiaco Abbey has existed since 1878—relatively young compared to the medieval monasteries of Europe, but no less traditional.
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In some monasteries, it is believed that female Buddhists can't even achieve enlightenment unless they are reborn as men.
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This entry was clued differently in its 1944 debut — "Hindu monasteries" — but hasn't been in the puzzle much since.
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There are around 100 female monks living in these monasteries, compared to an estimated 300,000 male monks in Thailand.
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From the 1910s to the 173s, he amassed parts of dismantled castles, villas, monasteries and churches from across Europe.
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Poggio travels to faraway monasteries and finds esoteric classical texts in order to recopy them in beautiful humanist script.
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He helped bring the Reformation to England, and he helped Henry seize England's monasteries and abbeys for the crown.
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The church insists that the law allows the state to impound its property, including monasteries, churches and other assets.
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As he tours the monasteries, his meditations on the nature of empire are a treat and treatise in themselves.
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She speaks of these spaces where silence reigned as now being in ruins, both the monasteries and the prisons.
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But between May and mid-October if you can brave the long drive, exquisite monasteries and untouched natural beauty await.
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The dissolution of monasteries and the subsequent religious wars greatly disrupted traditional society, allowing new economic practices to take root.
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Today monks who live by the Rule of St Benedict in hundreds of (normally small) Trappist monasteries speak only sparingly.
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After living in monasteries in southeast Asia, Anteby came to Los Angeles to visit family, but eventually decided to stay.
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Temples and monasteries in mainly Buddhist Thailand have been rocked by sex and money scandals, prompting widespread calls for reform.
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It said that 2,000 other Rakhine people were sheltering in monasteries, temples and schools in Maungdaw and neighboring Buthidaung Township.
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However, he stressed the firebrand monk didn't officially represent Ma Ba Tha -- a fairly loose coalition of monasteries and supporters.
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The island is great for history buffs since it has plenty of archaeological sites, castles, and beautiful monasteries to explore.
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One of Athos's 20 monasteries, Agios Panteleimon, is home to some 60 Ukrainian and Russian monks, with a Russian abbot.
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A cloister (from the Latin "claustrum"), is a quadrangle, an architectural enclosure of outdoor space most commonly seen in monasteries.
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Deeply associated with the Catholic Church structure there, he ordained priests, divided the country into dioceses, and founded several monasteries.
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And since that time, the only female creatures allowed on Mount Athos are cats, who are abundant in the monasteries.
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More recently, barricades and armed police officers ring the monasteries to guard against Islamic State suicide bombers, who target Christians.
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Soundwalk Collective recorded wind at 200 villages and monasteries in Nepal to create an immersive experience at the Rubin Museum.
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On Sunday, April 22, the focus shifts to Sattriya, a form originating in monasteries of the northeastern state of Assam.
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When gingerbread making, credited to European monasteries during the Middle Ages, came to Northern Croatia, laymen took up the tradition.
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He's also built a network of monasteries and retreat centers in six countries around the world, including the United States.
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The Lhasa Apso is a thousand-year-old breed, and they served as sentinels at palaces and monasteries in the Himalayas.
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That applies as much to modern spiritual communities, from New Age communes to eccentric survivalists, as it does to conventional monasteries.
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Sikkim, in the west, has stunning Buddhist monasteries, and Assam, in the northeast, also has tea gardens as well as wildlife.
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Monasteries, which long ago played a central role in Tibetan society, are losing whatever influence China has allowed them to retain.
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What intoxication the pealing of the bells of all the churches, and of all the monasteries of Paris, must have produced . . .
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The monasteries have been viewed as symbols of Serbian oppression during moments of tension, and have been the target of protests.
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The scrolls then could have moved into monasteries, the authors write, where they'd have been exposed to moisture and changing temperatures.
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His Rule of St. Benedict, a series of teachings for monks, formed the basic precepts for thousands of monasteries in Europe.
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And there's a chance, too, that American monasteries will be forced to rely on the arrival of more monks from overseas.
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Unesco has declared the whole valley, including the more than half-mile-long cliff and its monasteries, a World Heritage Site.
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Some of the most ancient and revered monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church exist as lonely islands in largely Albanian towns.
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The government has evacuated thousands of non-Muslim villagers from the north of Rakhine state to towns, monasteries and police stations.
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About 6,000 Buddhists have also fled to Sittwe, where they are cared for at monasteries by the government and Rakhine volunteers.
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Monasteries in those areas functioned both as centers of natural and supernatural healing and also as libraries and centers of learning.
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His remarks come amid China's controversial work to "reconstruct" southwest Sichuan province's Larung Gar monastery, one of China's largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.
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And he adds that because the monasteries can be quite dark, he'd have to use a tripod nearly all of the time.
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He'd made films about monasteries and meatpacking plants, fashion models and military maneuvers, schools for students with disabilities and horse racing tracks.
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All are anticipating the arrival of the monks, who will soon walk out of the nearest temples and monasteries to collect alms.
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Ancient monasteries are being shut down, people are being forced from their homes, and peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, exiled and tortured.
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After democracy came to Mongolia in 33, monasteries and schools were re-established by the survivors, many already then in their 70s.
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Buddhist monasteries tend to the religious needs of the town's 30,000 residents, while military units guard the still-disputed border with China.
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Like Petrarch, Erasmus searched out the pagan manuscripts disintegrating in monasteries, laboriously taught himself ancient Greek and cultivated a stylistically dazzling Latin.
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Henry VIII closed it during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and at its height, it was one of the richest.
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Cathedrals enjoy ancient privileges, and their autonomy goes back to medieval times when they also served as monasteries headed by an abbot.
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Buddhist monasteries regularly run schools, and temples in Beijing fill up every year with party members praying for their children's examination success.
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Gone is the Jewish quarter, the markets with their monasteries, and the lattice balconies and sculptured masonry of another Sunni silk road city.
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Squeezed between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires, this part of the world is a semi-feudal patchwork of villages, monasteries and estates.
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A UNESCO World Heritage site, Maaloula is home to many shrines and churches -- as well as two monasteries -- considered sacred by many Christians.
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So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents.
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Such indoctrination, along with compulsory political study in monasteries, aims to reduce the appeal of the Dalai Lama, Tibet&aposs exiled spiritual leader.
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In the days leading up to the festival, they held public awareness sessions in various monasteries for dozens of people at a time.
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They have frequently been attacked by Islamist militants who see them as infidels, prompting authorities to place armed guards outside churches and monasteries.
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I don't have to rampage around the North Sea burning monasteries, but can instead turn my clan into (well-armed) traders and farmers.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From brown ales to golden pilsners to the strong trappist brews produced in monasteries, Belgian beer is enjoyed around the world.
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The company has arranged for treks to many of Bhutan's monasteries, mountain-biking along 12,000-foot mountain passes, and participation in archery tournaments.
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The remains of Thailand's historic city of Ayutthaya include ornate monasteries and structures that date back to the 14th century, according to UNESCO.
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The additional charges this week were brought against Gambira for allegedly breaking into monasteries in 2012 that had been sealed by the government.
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The group also partners with nearby monasteries that bless the animals, reinforcing local superstitions that harming a tortoise will result in divine retribution.
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Think about what Greenblatt completely fails to mention: all the rest of the vast learning and debate going on inside and outside monasteries.
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A Unesco World Heritage site (like many monasteries in Armenia), the medieval church was built partly out of the side of a mountain.
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Hydra, a 25-square-mile isle of intimate coves and hilltop monasteries, is just a 1.5- to 2-hour ferry (€28) ride away.
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The Mustang monasteries are among the highest sacred places in the world, their low chants sometimes emerging in Khandroma from the fluttering noise.
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For example, squirrels are commonly depicted wearing collars and leashes in medieval art and they were mentioned in historical letters as pets in monasteries.
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These include temples, monasteries as well as residential viharas and mathas, which have been carved out of solid rock from the region's Charanandri Hills.
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While drawn to the country's surprising fashion cred, the influencer found herself captivated by historic monasteries, Old Town Tbilisi, and the gorgeous mountainous countryside.
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Under a 2013 EU-brokered deal Belgrade, Pristina agreed to give Serb enclaves in Kosovo more autonomy and grant protected status to Orthodox monasteries.
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They have also frequently been attacked by Islamist militants who see them as infidels, prompting authorities to place armed guards outside churches and monasteries.
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Two years later, the king oversaw the Dissolution of the Monasteries, an attempt to destroy the country's Catholic monastic system and seize its assets.
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"I was going to some monasteries and at the same time traveling in an interesting and beautiful country," he said of his Ethiopia trip.
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In Tibet, "local officials [from the Atheist Communist Party] have intruded into core decision-making about how monasteries and nunneries are run," Richardson says.
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For centuries, Umbrian farmers were small producers of diverse crops, fully occupied by feeding their own families and supplying the local castles and monasteries.
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Theologically, it's tricky; the Germans want further reformation from Henry, who may enjoy breaking up England's monasteries but seems comfortable enough, doctrinally, with Rome.
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An estimated 1.2 million Tibetans have died since the Chinese occupation of Tibet and over 6,000 monasteries in Tibet have been reduced to rubble.
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By making monasteries, of a sort, of our homes and hearts, we may develop the spiritual disciplines necessary to endure this seemingly endless trial.
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These monasteries, established at such places as St. Amand, St. Vaast, and St. Bertin, introduced Insular illumination to the Franks and made it Continental.
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According to Mr. Schwartz, one of every 20 inhabitants was either a monk or a nun, because the town was a home to prestigious monasteries.
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Since 1928, the Spanish government has encouraged tourism in these remote locales by transforming neglected fortresses, monasteries, palaces, and other historic buildings into boutique hotels.
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That the discovery was made in a rural German monastery is no surprise; books were being produced during this time in monasteries across the country.
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Translated as the "Middle Land" - referring to the land between India and Tibet - Spiti is dotted with stupas and centuries-old monasteries perched on crags.
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The towering rocks of Meteora, Greece, are home to monasteries that date back to the 15th century, according to the site's UNESCO World Heritage description.
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From lush, undulating landscapes and extensive wildlife preserves to historic Buddhist monasteries and traditional art forms, there is so much for any visitor to explore.
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Although he was not a religious man, Mr. Iordachescu started to look for a way to save some of the centuries-old churches and monasteries.
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But it remains a wondrous destination for the adventurous traveler, full of captivating scenery, generous and friendly people, and accessible monasteries and holy places nearby.
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In 70 kilometers, or about 43 miles, you'll reach Lamayuru Monastery, one of the most venerated and ancient monasteries in the region (50 rupees admission).
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But there are monasteries in Assam, in the far reaches of northeastern India, where prayer has always been, and continues to be, expressed through dance.
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It owns 66 monasteries in Montenegro, most of them dating back to the Middle Ages, as well as dozens of churches and other real estate.
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And we quietly urge you to pick up Jane Brox's book "Silence," which considers the uses and abuses of enforced quiet from monasteries to prisons.
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For instance, in the 18th century, French physician Philippe Pinel gave medical support to eradicating monasteries, as their religious devotions could be classified as hysteria.
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More than 1 million Russians visit Georgia each year - accounting for 20% of all tourists who holiday in Georgia, renowned for its wines and ancient monasteries.
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The destruction of biblical and ancient Near Eastern ruins, prophets' graves and monasteries grab our attention more than Islamic shrines and tombs, which are mostly ignored.
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Pope Tawadros immediately ordered a freeze on accepting new monks, a ban on monks leaving monasteries without permission, and a ban on clergy using social media.
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The monasteries are now at the center of the identity of Egypt&aposs Coptic Orthodox Church, whose followers constitute the large majority of Egypt&aposs Christians.
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Italy is giving away more than 100 historic castles, farmhouses and monasteries for free in an effort to breathe new life into its disused public buildings.
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Monks from local monasteries now observe the festivities, interrogate threatening monks, disrobe them if they are impostors or send them home if they are genuine monks.
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Ultramarine and gold leaf would have been used to create illustrated illuminated manuscripts and luxury books in monasteries, mostly for other religious institutions and the nobility.
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Henry VIII's split from Rome had engineered a many-layered crisis, destroying the treasures of the monasteries and dividing English Catholics from Protestants along violent lines.
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In Mandalay, a center for Buddhist learning crowded with temples and monasteries, monks in burgundy or orange began filing barefoot into the old airport before dawn.
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In between the dragons, Game of Thrones is giving us analogues for Hadrian's Wall, the Wars of the Roses, the crusades, even Zoroastrianism and Christian monasteries.
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"Leonard Cohen and I traded stories about our respective experiences at Zen monasteries, the actress Jeanne Moreau gave me her recipe for Irish stew," she recalled.
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During his life in exile, Mr. Nhat Hanh established 10 monasteries and practice centers in half a dozen countries, including the United States, France and Thailand.
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He settled in Kathmandu, Nepal, and eventually went on to Tibet, where he made life-size digital photographs of centuries-old mural cycles in Buddhist monasteries.
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For the better part of a year, I roamed the country, living in monasteries, going on 10-day silent meditation retreats and learning from Buddhist teachers.
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My reporting career has taken me to many strange places: sewers and slaughterhouses, prisons and monasteries, a burlesque-queen reunion here, an Odd Fellows convention there.
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Some of the monasteries that we visited in Tao were the very sites where medieval chantbooks called iadgari (heirmologions) were collated by 10th-century scribal monks.
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In the early Middle Ages, the churches and the monasteries were those tiny arks carrying the faith and the faithful across a dark and stormy sea.
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The newly formed Levant Company began an illegal trade shipping old tin and lead, stripped from deconsecrated churches and monasteries, to the Ottomans to reforge as armaments.
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Go beyond the city limits for a day of wine tasting, vineyard touring, and soaking in the mountains, monasteries, and stunning nature that surrounds this metropolitan hotspot.
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He was received with pomp and ceremony not only by the leaders of the peninsula's 20 monasteries but by Greece's worldly head of state, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
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Four others were injured in the attack at the UNESCO World Heritage site at the base of Mount Sinai, one of the oldest Christian monasteries on Earth.
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Grollemond remarks that bestiary manuscripts were originally used within monasteries for the education of monks, but also came to influence the sermons given to the lay public.
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In the Middle Ages, the hurdy-gurdy functioned as an aid to choral teaching in monasteries but soon became known as a rustic accompaniment to village dances.
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The monks had been in the midst of fundraising to rebuild the basilica, two monasteries, and a brewery they run — an endeavor expected to cost $7.5 million.
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No. 50 Transylvanian Alps, Romania The scholarly characters in Kostova's richly imagined book ricochet around Europe visiting libraries, monasteries, crypts and villages in search of Dracula's tomb.
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This includes stationing "work teams" in villages and sensitive spots such as monasteries, and dividing cities into "grids" in which residents have to spy on each other.
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That name, the story goes, came about not because the riverbanks themselves were deemed holy or blessed, but because so many monasteries and churches dotted the region.
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The Serbian church in Montenegro, which owns 66 mainly medieval monasteries, dozens of churches and other real estate there, insists the state wants to impound its assets.
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The popularity of monasticism in the islands is theorized as due in part to the connections that Anglo-Saxon monks created with Coptic and Eastern Orthodox monasteries.
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Coptic Pope Tawadros this month ordered a freeze on accepting new monks, a ban on monks leaving monasteries without permission, and a ban on clergy using social media.
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The royal court not only dissolved Catholic monasteries but also melted down the lead from their roofs and turned it into bullets for sale to Moors and Turks.
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Visiting Sufi monasteries that are influential religious and social centers, especially in rural areas, and talking to the media, Khelil says he only wants to serve his country.
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Adding to the intrigue, the church&aposs statement appealed to lay Christians not to enter into any financial deals with monks, suggesting that corruption exists in some monasteries.
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For the Rubin Museum, they collaborated with sound artist Francisco López to amass 120 hours of wind sounds in over 200 villages and monasteries for their Khandroma record.
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The "traditional book culture," as he put it in "The Two Latin Cultures," one nourished in cathedrals and monasteries, began to rely on classical models in teaching grammar.
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Already connected with the Eastern Roman Empire, Irish and Anglo-Saxon monks crossed the English Channel and founded monasteries along the coast and interior of the Frankish Empire.
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They now attract university graduates and professionals who have energized the faith and, in some cases, turned the larger monasteries into farming and dairy enterprises, giving them financial independence.
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Ms Darke is a journalist and travel writer, and much of her early time in Syria was spent walking its hills and exploring its mosques, churches, monasteries and fortresses.
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Beeching achieved an infamy unique for a civil servant normally reserved for top politicians such as Anthony Eden (Suez), Neville Chamberlain (appeasement) or Thomas Cromwell (dissolution of the monasteries).
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Fighting has forced about 5,000 people to flee from their homes and to take shelter in monasteries and communal areas across the region since early January, according to UNOCHA.
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Many of those displaced have been relocated to temporary shelters, with both monasteries and cyclone shelters opening their doors to families, according to the National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC).
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Internet and cellphone service is spotty, the two roads to the outside world are snowed in every winter, and Buddhist monasteries compete with military outposts for prime mountaintop locations.
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These homeless people were served by young volunteers who shared their guests' poverty — a modern version of the hospitality that Benedictine monasteries had provided in Europe before the Reformation.
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Each year, thousands of Indian and foreign tourists come here to stroll around the old Buddhist monasteries, take pictures of the saffron-robed monks and eat yak-cheese pizza.
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The boulevard, which follows the course of a stream that was eventually diverted, was home to convents and monasteries before the anticlerical riots of 503 destroyed many of them.
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Like other forms of English culture nurtured by Catholic institutions, much of this music came to be lost in the upheaval that followed Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
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The group assassinates Church leaders; conducts mass murders; tortures and kidnaps for ransom; destroys churches, monasteries, cemeteries, and artifacts; rapes Christian girls and women; and practices forcible conversion to Islam.
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In Tibet, another frontier region experiencing ethnic strife, Mr. Chen had expanded the security forces, sent party officials to live in villages and tightened control of Buddhist monasteries and temples.
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On Athos itself, there are around 133,000 monks, mostly living communally in monasteries, but there are others living in very small communities called sketes, each with three or four monks.
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She began taking classes at various locations with Mr. Suddhaso, who grew up in Colorado and began practicing meditation as a teenager and trained in monasteries in California and Canada.
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A half-forgotten world of marshes and salt flats, the 212-square-mile Lagoon contains 100 or so islands that thrived during the Renaissance as farms, military bases and monasteries.
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Kassandra Braun, from Fishers, Indiana, fell to her death on Tuesday while on independent travel to Bagan, an ancient city in Myanmar that is home to Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries.
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Artistic printed images were "available to the very few and found primarily in monasteries or churches, or in the palaces of the aristocracy," she wrote in the brochure for the show.
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The country's monasteries are increasingly run by millennial monks, the first generation to come of age after decades of religious repression under the Soviet system wiped out almost all Buddhist clergy.
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The pre-WWI count of active Ottoman Armenian churches and monasteries, according to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, was 2,538 and 451, respectively; nearly all have since been destroyed or repurposed.
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The Free Tibet spokesman said that the Chinese government had lifted some restrictions on Tibetan religious practices, but that monasteries were required to demonstrate allegiance to the People's Republic of China.
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New admissions to the monasteries have been suspended for a year; monks require permission to travel outside; and they have been given a month to close their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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Down the centuries, Christian culture has largely ignored the more provocative features of the early church or siphoned off their lingering residues in small special communities (such as monasteries and convents).
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The Islamic State in Egypt has expanded an insurgency that started in the Sinai Peninsula in recent years to include attacks on Christians in churches and major cities and outside monasteries.
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Located where the mountains peak into the clouds, the monasteries are adorned with incredible frescoes and weathered prayer wheels, both of which Crasneanscki recorded with a camera equipped with a kaleidoscope.
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These majestic and usually whitewashed fortress-monasteries, typically built along rivers, today are home to both monks and government officials, and are considered to be the physical manifestation of Buddhist principles.
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Mantel had been fascinated by Cromwell for decades, ever since she learned, while she was attending a convent-run high school in Cheshire, about Cromwell's role in dissolving the country's monasteries.
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His mission is to discover where the pirates come from, how they seem to know which monasteries are the poorest defended and, most important, on whose orders they might be acting.
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The same applies to other hinted-at tales within this tale: those of the abbots and abbesses of the monasteries, those of the pirate "savages" and that of the dying emperor.
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