He went back to India, where he lived as a monk in the mountains for 12 years.
Then, fingering the line, he waits, with a monk's tireless patience and the concentration of a chess player.
The legend goes it was sung by the angels on Christmas Eve and written down by a monk.
By the seventeen-eighties, Newton was living as a penitent and a monk in a small Anglican church in London.
When he became a monk at 17, he had only completed eighth grade.
Recently Corinne "Coco" Leyre, from France, was initiated as a monk of the women's order in a secret ceremony.
The night after the finals, Mr. Brown played Manhattan's Jazz Standard, supporting pianist Gerald Clayton (a Monk finalist in 2006).
"These days there is no harmony among people, " observes Kojun Kobayashi, 32, a monk at the Sennyuji temple in Kyoto.
In 1950, the Frick acquired two small, gold-ground, half-length figures, a monk and nun in the sober habits of the Augustinian order probably St.
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Sotheby's London is to auction a portrait of a monk, credited to Anthony van Dyck, that was previously thought to have been painted by Rubens.
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He derives his monastic lineage from Keshav Puri, a monk buried outside Multan in Pakistan who is also called Multani Baba or Shamshad Tapa Rez.
When a monk takes a vow of silence, he does so in order to shut out the world and devote himself exclusively to things of the spirit.
"We intend to unite together, " says Wai Phyo, one of the founders, who spent ten years as a monk before opening a rickety DVD stand at Kyimyindaing market.
Pannasiha, a monk who goes by one name and teaches at a prestigious Buddhist academy in Yangon, says Myanmar cannot thrive as a collection of separate communities living side by side.
But of all my wonderful memories, a single encounter with a monk offering to share an umbrella on a cold Christmas Eve remains the single most formative experience of my life.
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Shijo Bridge, in front of you, might be the ground zero of Kyoto old and new: a monk is standing, stock-still, collecting coins, and the mountains to the north are blue in the dusk.
Past speakers include a monk-turned-business guru and a comedian.
Although there are conflicting theories, he is believed to died on 1 March in 601AD and the first biography of him was written some 400 years later by a monk called Rhigyfarch.
What happened next included the town fathers' constructing them a new, modern brewery, the hiring of a lager-minded brewmaster from Bavaria and possibly the theft of a Bavarian yeast strain, smuggled in by a monk.
While selflessly serving mankind springs to mind, I would argue that a scientist selflessly serving science, an artist serving art, a corporation serving customers or a monk serving God are also valid examples of transcendent purpose.
Documented since the year 1100, the procession is founded on the cult of Saint Willibrord, a monk and founder of the Abbey of Echternach, revered for his missionary activities, his kindness and gift of curing certain illnesses.
For instance not so much recording Dylan - and I recorded Randy Newman, one of the first people who did record his songs, and I found and recorded many, many of - well, Leonard Cohen came to me to find out whether I thought he was a songwriter, which I thought was peculiar for a monk not to know.
The next week I had dinner with a Buddhist monk in a Buddhist monastery.
The boy inhabited this place like a reincarnate monk, a sprite flitting between the fallen arches, beneath the vanished porticoes.
St Andrew was the first ever apostle and brother to Simon Peter and after his death, legend has it that a Greek Monk called St Rule was warned in a dream to move his remains.
The first elementary school in the Americas was set up in Mexico in 1523 by a Franciscan monk.
The fatal stabbing of a Polish monk in the Tunisian capital on February 18th was ascribed by some to Islamist radicals.
Mr Board, whose real name is Barry, said his "most unusual" customer had been a Franciscan monk based at Hilfield Friary.
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Most of these men are Buddhists, police say, angered over the death of a Buddhist monk who suffered severe burns on Wednesday.
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