monks

Buddhist monks will be able to show you other ways to enjoy life outside that system, however.

It's the year 2015 and Buddhist monks are still widely under-represented in the upper echelons of the job market.

You can donate money to monks who are studying, with the intent to benefit all beings.

In downtown SF there are a couple scam monks who pull exactly this with bead bracelets.

Charlemagne also used monks and priests in something that looks like a proto-civil service role...

If all they see is some monks climbing an infinite staircase then yeah - that's going to seem gimmicky and boring.

There was a professor at school who considered monks, nuns, the Amish, DIY punks, etc to be countercultural.

When the Tibetan monks blow away their mandala after weeks of painstaking work, I see startup pivots and acquihires.

Ancient Hindu monks have pondered on the question of consciousness forever.

You will find lots of books written by saints, priests, monks,...

These monks definitely prohibit certain actions to attain their intent.

Some Tibetan Buddhist monks practice a type of mindfulness that consists of imagining bits and pieces of their bodies are being slowly dissolved or devoured, until nothing is left.

People who become Buddhist monks don't have to be "introverted people" but they practice what would be described as introverted behavior.

And for research fields that require some expensive equipment, like bio-medical research, the "monastery" may make the "monks" sign contracts giving the patents and other right to their discoveries to the monastery, in exchange for having access to a lab where they can work on anything they want.

I hoped for actual fiction, like "The Laundry Archives" (where computation can summon demons), "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (about raising children AI), "The Last Question" (short story from Asimov) or "The Nine Billion Names of God" (about monks buying a computer for religious purposes).

Monks had a lot of influence on spelling.