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	Korean Buddhism - Gurupedia
		Korean scholars and monks not only devoted unusually large portions of their time and energy toward the resolution of sectarian debates and apparent doctrinal inconsistencies; they produced a strain of Buddhism of a significantly new character from that which had been initially transmitted to them.
		Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin.
		The presence of this monks' army was a critical factor in the eventual expulsion of the Japanese invaders.
	www.gurupedia.com /k/ko/korean_buddhism.htm (6462 words)

	Korean Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 372 the Chinese monk Sundo (順道, or Shundao in Chinese) was sent by the Former Qin ruler Fujian (符堅) to the court of the King Sosurim (小獸林) of Goguryeo.
		The monk Banya (波若; 562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi, and Gyeomik of Baekje (謙益;) and travelled to India to learn Sanskrit and study Vinaya.
		The presence of the monks' army was a critical factor in the eventual expulsion of the Japanese invaders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Buddhism (4637 words)

	Korean Buddhism Article, KoreanBuddhism Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Korean scholars and monks not only devoted unusually large portions of their time and energy toward theresolution of sectarian debates and apparent doctrinal inconsistencies; they produced a strain of Buddhism of a significantly newcharacter from that which had been initially transmitted to them.
		Shortly afterward,in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin.
		The presence of this monks' army was a critical factor in theeventual expulsion of the Japanese invaders.
	www.anoca.org /seon/buddhist/korean_buddhism.html (6128 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 372 the Chinese monk Sundo (順道, or Shundao in Chinese) was sent by the Qin ruler Fujian (符堅), who reigned 357 - 384, to the court of the king Sosurim (小獸林) of Goguryeo, whose reign lasted from 371 to 383.
		The monk Banya (波若; 562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi, and Gyeomik (謙益; he returned in 526) of Baekje even went to India to learn Sanskrit and study Vinaya.
		Monks of the period brought back numerous scriptures from abroad and were fervent missionaries, furthering the spread of Buddhism throughout Korea and initiating the transmission of Buddhism to Japan.
	teamsweb.info /index.php?title=Korean_Buddhism (3740 words)

	VRIENDT, J. J. DE, AND A. F. L. DE - LoveToKnow Article on VRIENDT, J. J. DE, AND A. F. L. DE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His hair is then polled crosswise by way of consecrating it; and in some forms of the rite the presiding monk, called " the father of the hair," collects the shorn locks and deposits them under the altar or in some other safe and sacred place.
		Greek nuns used to keep the hair thus shorn off, weave it into girdles, and wear it for the rest of their lives round their waists, where close to their holy persons there was no risk of its being defiled by alien contact.
		In particular a monk binds himself to a lifelong and often morbid struggle against the order of nature; and motives become for him not good or bad according to the place they occupy in the living context of social life, but according as they bear upon an abstract and useless ideal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VR/VRIENDT_J_J_DE_AND_A_F_L_DE.htm (1184 words)

	Korean Buddhism
		Korean scholars and monks not only devoted unusually large portions of their time and energy toward the resolution of sectarian debates and apparent doctrinal inconsistencies; they produced a strain of Buddhism of a significantly new character from that which had been initially transmitted to them.
		Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda;) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin.
		The monk Banya (562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi (538-597).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/korean_buddhism.html (6533 words)

	Korean Buddhism Summary
		In North Korea, however, the Japanese tradition of married monks remained the norm for those few hundred monks who manage the approximately fifty temples that were allowed to remain open to support the claim by the North Korean government that it respects religious freedom.
		In 372 the Chinese monk Sundo (順道, or Shundao in Chinese) was sent by the Former Qin ruler Fujian (符堅) to the court of the King Sosurim (小獸林) of Goguryeo.
		The monk Banya (波若; 562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi, and Gyeomik of Baekje (謙益;) and travelled to India to learn Sanskrit and study Vinaya.
	www.bookrags.com /Korean_Buddhism (6477 words)

	Fire and Water: Sauna Purification
		Olga invited the Derevlian messengers to use her banya, and while they were inside, her men barred the doors and burned the banya to the ground with the Derevlians in it.
		The sacred rivers relevant to the banya tradition are the Volga, the Don and the Dneipr in the west.
		This association with wizards (and with pagan beliefs; the banya is said to be the vtoroi mat, or second mother, referring to its symbolism as a small temple to Mokosh the Earth Mother) caused later Russian Christians to say that the bathhouse was full of devils and unquiet ghosts.
	cauldronfarm.com /writing/sauna.html (5669 words)

	Korean Buddhism
		Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda 摩羅難陀) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin.
		One of the earliest eminent monks from Goguryeo was Seungnang (僧朗 5-6c) who traveled in China and spent a considerable amount of time and studying Sanlun and Huayan before returning to Goguryeo.
		The monk Banya 波若 (562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi (智顗; 538-597).
	asiarecipe.com /korbuddhism.html (6661 words)

	Korean Buddhism
		Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda 摩羅難陀) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin.
		One of the earliest eminent monks from Goguryeo was Seungnang (僧朗 5-6c) who traveled in China and spent a considerable amount of time and studying Sanlun and Huayan before returning to Goguryeo.
		The monk Banya 波若 (562-613?) is said to have studied under the Tiantai master Zhiyi (智顗; 538-597).
	www.asiarecipe.com /korbuddhism.html (6666 words)

	Asia :: A Talk with Win Zaw
		Confused that a monk should own property and beg for his dinner every day, I suddenly found myself unable to pry further, foundering on territory that I did not know how to negotiate.
		To live the life of a monk as the Buddha did is nearly impossible as you deny yourself in every way.
		A monk in another town was the only person who gave The Lady a place to speak when she visited there.
	travelstorydirectory.com /data/1631.html (2326 words)

	BGGLOBE - Bulgaria travel guide, аccomodation in Bulgaria, tourism, landmarks, holidays, vacations, sea, mountain, ...
		The cult site in the “Kalugera” (the Monk) place is located just 4 km northeast of the Marishnitsa (town of Apriltsi) place, at the northern foot of mountain peak Maragidik, in immediate proximity to a path crossing the mountain to the south.
		According to the legend the figure of the monk was carved into the rock to serve as a pointer towards the place where a treasure enough to feed 7 families for 7 years was buried.
		At this stage of studying the interpretation of the legend and the rock drawings is difficult, but there can be made a close relation with the graphics, depicted at the entrance to the central chamber of the Thracian burial mould uncovered between the villages Shipka and Yasenovo.
	www.bgglobe.net /index.php?l=1&s=-1933 (323 words)

	Troyan Monastery
		According to the monastery’s chronicles, kept by an unknown monk, the monastery was founded by a hermit who came to the place and built himself a simple cottage some years after the fall of the second Bulgarian state.
		Another noteworthy portrait is the group one at the altar, depicting all the 27 monks that lived in the monastery at that time.
		According to the story, the icon was donated by a monk who on his way from Mt Athos to present-day Romania learnt about the hermit who lived close to Troyan and dropped by to spend some time with him.
	www.bulgarianmonastery.com /troyan_monastery.html (1105 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Grigori Rasputin
		Rasputin was also known as the Mad Monk, although he was not actually a monk, but a starets (ста́рец), or religious pilgrim.
		This, however, contradicts the memoirs of one of his friends who saw him in a banya and claimed that his body looked pretty ordinary (except that he looked much younger than his age).
		One in particular was developed by Michael Rapp and stars Ted Neeley, of Jesus Christ Superstar fame, as the mad monk.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Grigori_Rasputin (2760 words)

	ipedia.com: Korean Buddhism Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A new epoch in Korean Buddhism began during the latter Silla with the birth of schools of Seon in Korea.
		The most noteworthy of these was the queen dowager Munjeong, who, as a devout Buddhist, took control of the government in the stead of her young son Myeongjong (r.
		One of the most important reasons for the restoration of Buddhism to a position of minimal acceptance was the role of the monks in repelling the Japanese invasion of general Hideyoshi Toyotomi, which occurred between 1592 and 1598.
	www.ipedia.com /korean_buddhism.html (6547 words)

	Alina Agency Tours - Kazan, Cheboksary, Kozmodemyansk, Chkarino, Sheremetevo Castle
		Plenty of tourists are greatly attracted by the huge number of comfortable hotels, by the well developed transportation system, by the Aquapark, hundreds of the night clubs and restaurants, bright colors of the historic monuments and museums.
		One day some monk went outdoors, looked in the sky and saw the hand, showing from the clouds and blessing the place of the wilderness.
		The monk was delighted and surprised to see such an unusual thing, he hurried to tell Filaret about that, who had taken it as a very good sign.
	www.marriage-4u.com /tours.php (1928 words)

	Russian banya chills and thrills you - The Boston Globe
		The sauna, the well, the snow are part of an excursion to a banya in Sergiev Posad, the premier town of the Golden Ring and the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Every banya also had its own mischievous resident spirit called a bannick (after Bannick, the Slavic god of bathing), often described as an old man with hairy paws and long nails.
		Founded by the monk Sergius in 1340, this walled complex of decoratively painted buildings has been a spiritual center in Russia for more than 600 years, and today is a working monastery, seminary, theological academy, and place of pilgrimage.
	www.boston.com /travel/getaways/europe/articles/2006/02/05/russian_banya_chills_and_thrills_you/?page=1 (1332 words)

	Russian Medieval Medicine
		It had two hospitals: a 6-bed unit for sick monks, and a larger facility for the city.
		Hydrotherapy, the steam bath (banya), was also common, especially for gout and arthritic conditions.
		During the Mongol period, as power shifted to the north, medicine was largely in the hands of monks (and folk healers).
	www.strangelove.net /~kieser/Russia/medicine.html (1900 words)

	Circle of Special Friends Forum
		When Banya Thau was sent to Ava she was 29 years old, a widow and a mother with a son and two daughters.
		Two of her brothers, Binnyadammayaza and Banya Ram I, and one of her sons, Binnyawaru, had already ruled as kings of Pegu.
		The monk Pitakahara, who had helped her escape from Ava, left the sangha, was given the titles Punnaraja and Dhammaceti, and became Baña Thau's son-in-law and a suitable heir to the throne by marrying her younger daughter Mipakathin.
	pub42.bravenet.com /forum/3527388543/fetch/735200 (1264 words)

	Baemsa-gol Scenic Valley and Samdo-bong Peak of Jiri-san
		However, the pouch in the monk's robes ruptured and the powerful poison
		had deceived the people and sacrificed good monks to the python for 900 years, out of greed.
		Monks and common people ever since have called this rock
	www.san-shin.net /Jiri-Baemsa-Samdo.html (779 words)

	Korean Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 372 the Chinese monk Sundo (順道, or Shundao in Chinese) was sent by the Qin ruler Fujian (符堅) to the court of the king Sosurim (小獸林) of Goguryeo.
		In 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a arrived in Baekje.
		The monk Weonhyo taught the "Pure Land"-practice of yeombul, which would become very popular amongst both scholars and laypeople, and has had a lasting influence on Buddhist thought in Korea.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Korean-Buddhism.htm (4370 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Korean Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Image Unavailable In 668, the kingdom of Silla succeeded in unifying the whole Korean peninsula, giving rise to a period of political stability that lasted for about one hundred years, which also was a zenith in the scholarly studies of Buddhism in Korea.
		This caused deep rift between the monks between the married and the celibate lines, was so great that fistfights over the control over temples by the monks was frequent.
		Further turblence in the 80's led by president Chun Doo-hwan for viewing the Buddhist temples as "dens of corruption and brutality".
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Korean_Buddhism (4491 words)

	North-West Travel Bureau - Snowmobile safari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Banya, dinner, lodging for the night in the guesthouse "Garnitsi".
		Banya, dinner, lodging for the night in guesthouse or peasant hut.
		On one of Onega Lake capes remain ruins of the Muromsky monastery, founded in the 14th century by the monk Lazar'.
	www.nwtb.ru /eng/combine_2.html (773 words)

	Batoshevo Monastery
		In 1809, a monk from the town of Troyan, Isay, came as a hermit to this place.
		One day the monk heard the story of a herdswoman who one evening, while seeking for lost cattle, saw a mother and a child sitting over a stone and crying for being left forgotten and homeless.
		The monk found the herdwoman and interpreted her vision as the request of God’s Mother to have a monastery rebuilt in this place.
	www.bulgarianmonastery.com /batoshevo_monastery.html (591 words)

	Korean Buddhism: A Short Overview
		On their last try, Wonhyo is said to have had a major "consciousness-only" enlightenment experience before he even got out of Korea, and as a result apparently lost his motivation to seek the dharma in China.
		Seosan is also known for his efforts in the continuation of the project of the unification of Buddhist doctrinal study and practice, and in his works strong influence can be seen from Wonhyo, Jinul and Giwha.
		For those monks who went on to the scriptural study course, there was a first level of texts which included the Śūraṃgama-sūtra (首楞嚴經 ; Sūtra of the Heroic March Absorption), the Vajracchedikā-sūtra (金剛經; Diamond Sūtra), Dasheng qixin lun (大乘起信論; Awakening of Mahāyāna Faith), Yuanjue jing (圓覺經; Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment).
	www.hm.tyg.jp /~acmuller/kor-bud/korbud-overview.html (8424 words)

	GRIGORI RASPUTIN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A Russian museum of erotica displays an object they claim to be his penis http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/rasputin.shtml, though there is no credible verification, which could be obtained in the form of DNA comparison.
		The object on display (presumably flaccid) is unusually large, though this contradicts the memoirs of one of his friends who saw him in a banya and claimed that his body looked pretty ordinary (except that he appeared much younger than his age).
		Christopher_Lloyd voiced Rasputin in the 1997 animated film ''Anastasia'', in which the mad monk was the primary antagonist.
	www.finalembracemetal.com /Grigori_Rasputin (3267 words)

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		Senior Buddhist monks are banned from publishing public statements of social concern to the nation, a practice that has been part of Buddhism for at least 2 thousand years.
		The role of senior monks and monk scholars cannot be overlooked and must have a place in the future of Burma or the transition to peace and stability may be disrupted for decades to come.
		Rev Uttama, Rev Wisara and their fellow monks were against British rule and the monks in Bangkok played a leading role in assisting the Burma Independence Army (BIA) led by General Aung San in a Bangkok Buddhist Temple in the 1940s to achieve independence.
	www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/2003/20030819.txt (2593 words)

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		After Buddha had attained Enlightenment, he said, “Every living beings have the nature of Buddha.” This is clear announcement that the Buddha and living beings have equal nature.
		The monk Gangodawila Soma, a popular preacher and writer died last month in Russia where he had gone to accept an honorary doctorate.
		Although medical reports say the monk had died of a heart attack, some Buddhists blame Christians for his death.
	eng.buddhapia.com /_Service/_ContentView/ETC_CONTENT_2.ASP?pk=0001449215&sub_pk=&clss_cd=0002200967&top_menu_cd=0000000057&menu_cd=&menu_code=0000008424&image_folder=color_05&bg_color=B9B9B9&line_color=A5A5A5&menu_type= (1502 words)

	SoGoNow.com Vacation and Travel ideas - Viva Las Seinfeld! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Monk's Café can be found at 2880 Broadway and 112th street.
		The trip is definitely worth it if you have Monk's ingrained indelibly on your brain, because from the street corner it looks exactly like it does in the episodes.
		Inside, however, it is nothing like Monk's, so unless you want to come in and see the Seinfeld memorabilia on the wall, I don't recommend eating there.
	www.sogonow.com /archives/2005/03/post_1.php (658 words)

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