monastery
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Looming over the colorless town is its hulking circa-1385 monastery, extended in convent courtyards and stately chapels with lofty naves, offering dazzling displays of stained glass.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
The monastery was founded in 1956, when a group of four monks arrived from Massachusetts to set up their new order on the property.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
At this site, about one third of individuals buried in lower status areas had tuberculosis, compared with 12% of those buried in the monastery or church.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Which is why I was heartbroken when I learned that William had been expelled from the monastery.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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