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Recent Examples of monastic
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 May 2026
Mindfulness meditation was not widely practiced by the non-monastic Buddhist laity.
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Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
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Koh Ewe,
TIME,
13 May 2024
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Adjective
The film’s central practice is a ritual called Sangkatan, in which devotees offer containers of useful items to the monastic community.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 May 2026
Mindfulness meditation was not widely practiced by the non-monastic Buddhist laity.
—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
Explore medieval monastic ruins on Innisfallen Island, and immerse yourself in ancient silence.
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Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
—
Koh Ewe,
TIME,
13 May 2024
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Once inside, warm, tropical breezes flow into the hotel’s ascetic, nevertheless grand lobby, wafting you towards a magical cloister filled with plants and robust Botero sculptures.
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Grothendieck was intense and ascetic from his early days.
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But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.
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The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.
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In the 18th century, an Italian monk, Father Antonio Piaggio, invented a device to gently unroll the carbonized papyrus.
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The cordovan line revisited the brand’s shoemaking heritage with models that included derby shoes, loafers, monk straps and Chelsea boots.
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Often made by anonymous rappers and producers with a monkish dedication to their craft, this isn’t rap for the live show but for the headphones, music where every muttered word and barely-there snare matters.
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Designed with the neighboring 12th-century Abbaye de Sénaque in mind, the monkish minimalism—polished dark wood, long, bone-white corridors—add to the unique quality of this attractive space.
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One was that literary journalism anthology the mendicant had flipped through.
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The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century.
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Fra Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who was a medieval Italian Franciscan friar and explorer in 1244 went to Mongolia [as a papal ambassador].
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The storied residence was first commissioned in 1712 by Anna Gravina, Princess of Gravina and Valguarnera, and it's also attributed to Dominican friar and architect Tommaso Maria Napoli.
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China is, of course, an authoritarian state which has been criticized for maintaining a mass-surveillance system, while Brazil regained democracy in 1985 after two decades of military dictatorship.
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s 2018 book, How Democracies Die, argues that the most decisive figures in the success or failure of an authoritarian attempt are the would-be authoritarian’s ideological allies.
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Americans are more likely than not to favor religious expression in public schools, though most agree participation should be voluntary, a national survey has found.
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That they are entitled to not wear the uniforms, that they’re entitled to express their religious beliefs.
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“Monastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastic. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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