“…"In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. …”

“…This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. …”

“…The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are related. …”

“…Catherine of Sinai were the multicultural centres where Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Georgian speaking scholar-monks cohabited. A burgeoning literary activity developed there creating a favourable context for the circulation and exchange of texts and ideas. …”

“…We meet a manual of theoria based on Scripture, nature and tradition addressed to monks (and clergy?) and reflecting their hierarchical order of illumination. …”

“…To enforce the law, the government enlisted a number of nonstate actors, who included monks, family members, and community leaders. Throughout, Ward illuminates the complex processes through which the law articulated imperial ideology and how this ideology was transformed and disseminated through the law's application over its twenty-year history. …”

“…Written and decorated in about 1300 by learned monks in the Armenian province of Siunik’, the Gospel book offers significant insight into Armenian religious beliefs and practices of the time. …”
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“…One type of anthology – the monastic miscellany – describes collections designed for monks and offers important insight into the reading practices of these communities. …”

“…"Mindfulness has come a long way from its days as an obscure Buddhist meditation technique known only to monks and a few New Age enthusiasts to what it is now--one of the hottest new spiritual practices of our day. …”

“…First, this book follows the ways in which clergy and monks tried to shape and manufacture lay religious experience. …”

“…The stories in Experiences From the Light will astound and hearten you: An ill woman's story of how she came close to death, and the extraordinary aftermath visitations by masters, angels, monks, and Biblical figures. How one woman found herself out of her body and walking up a staircase to a door of great light as her grandmother crossed to the other side. …”

“…The theology adopted by the synod and its expression in a series of speeches was the work of a team of Greek monks under the leadership of St Maximus the Confessor. …”

“…The texts reveal the increased religious and political dimensions of icons in the 10th-11th c. monastic environment: they enhance different monastic spaces – churches, ossuaries, cells of monks. They are also important elements in commemorative practices. …”