monasteries

Yeah, long-timescale math monasteries just seemed like an attempt to bore me to death.

People might drop off the grid for backpacking trips, or trips to monasteries...

And Meteora monasteries are build on top of rocks, with only crane access.

At one point in time before we had universities, science and math research was done in monasteries.

As such, a better starting point to exploring monasteries is to find one close to you where the monks actually speak your native language.

We think of asian monasteries or comfy London cafè, nature and meditation.

Not really possible since these are centuries-old traditions in many monasteries.

A male heir and a pile of cash: the Dissolution of the Monasteries gave Henry an excuse to fill his coffers and pay off some debts.

Do you believe Catholic churches (or monasteries/convents) outside of Italy / Vatican City, mosques outside of Saudi Arabia, and temples outside of Israel are also novelties?

Most of the Zen denominations in Japan operate training monasteries in which the bureaucratic structures, ritual calendars, and modes of practice are modeled after those found in the leading Buddhist monasteries of Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1280-1368) dynasty China.

Some monasteries follow it more strictly than others.

Professional science is often compared to a monastery, but the difference is that monasteries are not allowed to induct people then throw out the bottom 85% of monks when they've already been at their devotions for seven years.

Athos refers to a mountainous area on a peninsula whose northern border is made fairly inaccessible by mountains; situated on Athos are 20 main monasteries and many dozens of smaller monasteries and "cells".

You could have also said the same thing about "Buddhist monasteries in China" when they first appeared there 2000+ years ago, or about the "Buddhist monasteries in Tibet" when that happened.

I don't find "Zen monasteries in America" anything but a novelty, much less those "lengthy meditation retreats".

It's steady work that hasn't changed a lot (everyone respects the temples - there are monasteries in Europe of comparable age to this company, but they were maintained by monks or "ordinary" builders), and not an easy market for outsiders to break into.