monk
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Users who have downloaded his app include a strip club owner, a Buddhist monk and parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Not the monk who was his friend of 30 years, not his niece in New York.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Like many Tibetan men, he served as a monk, spending 12 years at a southern India monastery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Nobody has an answer – not Lady Eboshi, certainly not San’s wolf mother or a monk who turns out not to be a monk at all.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
We all stand there, marveling at the fat monk, petting the white dog.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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But the action is nullified by the fact that Ono assumes the stoic posture of the Buddhist monks seen in the news at the time setting themselves aflame in protest of the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Buddhist monks are highly venerated in Thailand, entrusted with preserving and passing on the Buddha's teachings.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Police were also taking witness testimony from surviving monks as part of the investigation, Prayut said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Nine Buddhist monks were killed and several others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents' pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Like all the monks, his head was covered with the gray cowl of the order.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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