He went back to India, where he lived as a monk in the mountains for 12 years.
The fatal stabbing of a Polish monk in the Tunisian capital on February 18th was ascribed by some to Islamist radicals.
The loss of captain Garry Monk in the warm-up to a calf injury turned out to be a blessing in disguise as Fede Bessone, his replacement, set up both Pratley's goals for Swansea's first derby league win in 10 years.
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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When I was born, a blind, Buddhist monk living alone in the Burmese jungle predicted that my birth would bring great prosperity to the family.
The monk, who was born in the city of his name in northern Italy in 1631, was sent by the pope of the day to unite Christians in the face of a huge Ottoman army.
He also said the brushwork was clearly legible throughout - a trait of Van Dyck's when he was working in Rubens' studio - and that the use of thick paint in the monk's habit was also characteristic.
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One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.
UKIP's parliamentary candidate Jane Collins decided to cash in on her apparent support, and stood in the Monk Bretton ward.
"These days there is no harmony among people, " observes Kojun Kobayashi, 32, a monk at the Sennyuji temple in Kyoto.
Driven by a key-wound spring, the monk walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies.
Next up, the series would move back into the Gothic horror realm, with Batman confronting the bizarre death cult the Brotherhood in Gotham, led by the villainous Monk.
"We never do things easy here at Swansea and it's never come in my time here or the time before, so we're looking for one of those days where it can all go right for us, " said Monk, who joined the club in 2004 and will make his 200th club appearance if he faces Doncaster on Sunday.
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Pico Iyer is the acclaimed author of many travel books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and, most recently, The Man Within My Head.
Recently Corinne "Coco" Leyre, from France, was initiated as a monk of the women's order in a secret ceremony.
In 2011, he played the lead role in the film Rasputin, a Franco-Russian production about the life of eccentric monk Grigory Rasputin.
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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.
In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
Reality TV may be an awkward admixture of documentary (with its connotations of thousands of hours of footage patiently gathered, redacted by monk-like figures into the purest expression of truth possible in 90 to 120 minutes) and scripted (with its auteurs and Emmys and noble overtones of craft).
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The next week I had dinner with a Buddhist monk in a Buddhist monastery.
In New York in the late 1950s, he worked most notably with Thelonious Monk.
In defence their fellow pros voted for Angel Rangel and Garry Monk to make the divisional team.
Even in that non-conformist brotherhood Monk was unique, making harmonic contributions to the new music but never subscribing to its developing orthodoxies.
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.
This is why, after an improbable run of 12 years, Monk Magazine unofficially stopped printing in 1999 because, despite my Herculean sales efforts, the ad math of an irregularly published independent print magazine stopped working.
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The first elementary school in the Americas was set up in Mexico in 1523 by a Franciscan monk.
The first was by a 20-year-old monk called Phuntsog in March.
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.
His orange monk's robes, hitched up to show stout boots and socks, would tangle in the bushes.
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