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monastery

[mon-uh-ster-ee] / ˈmɒn əˌstɛr i /


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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

But a new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack where there was a workshop turning animal hides into vellum - a fine parchment used for writing on.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Mirr declined to comment on the buyer’s identity but did confirm that the person plans to use the former monastery as a home.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Over the course of several meetings, including one at an upscale Austrian diner built into a 12th-century monastery, the men said they wanted to feel out the government’s thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

I throw in a dab of secondhand Buddhism remembered from a friend’s account of a monastery in northern California where rich people pay to spend their weekends meditating and doing various menial chores, housework included.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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