Definition of abbot
: the superior of a monastery for men
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This was a condition from Father Samuel, its French abbot, to help maintain his order's privacy, because, while the skincare products his brothers produce may be quite modern, the way of life here is anything but.
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Tohaku’s patrons included abbots of important Kyoto temples; the leading tea master, Sen no Rikyu; and chief minister Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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But the basilica’s abbot stopped the preliminary work for their exhumation for nearly two years by appealing the judge’s decision, until top Catholic Church authorities ordered him earlier this year to comply with the judge’s ruling.
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After decades of contented toil as an abbot and gardener, the father of genetics died in relative obscurity.
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Wirathu, the abbot of the Masoeyein monastery in Mandalay, has taken a leading role in spreading the anti-Muslim sentiment among Myanmar’s Buddhist majority that has underpinned the army’s campaign against the ethnic Rohingya minority.
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Vanna Sara, a Buddhist abbot at Sittwe’s Seik Ke Daw Min monastery, said harsh policies were necessary to protect Buddhists.
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The glass encased skeleton at Wat Pah Nanachat, a forest monastery in northeast Thailand, belonged to a local woman years before the former abbot had her bones disinterred and put on show in the meditation hall.
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Vanna Sara, a Buddhist abbot at Sittwe’s Seik Ke Daw Min monastery, said harsh policies were necessary to protect Buddhists.
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