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monk

[muhngk] / mʌŋk /


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A 23rd monk, believed to have organised the trip, has since been arrested in a suburb of Colombo, police told BBC Sinhala.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

“It worked pretty well,” Mac Davis, one of the founders, who is also an ordained Buddhist monk, told me on a video call.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

“He’s calm as a monk in a firefight,” Craig Renaud says, “but a cocktail party in Brooklyn is absolutely terrifying.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

All three medallists, Choi Ga-on, Kim Sang-kyum and Yu Seung-eun, are "Dharma Kids", having competed at the Dharma Snowboard Competition which the monk founded, his temple confirmed to AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

The children, too, were peering at the black-robed, hooded men praying or carrying books—hoping that if the wicked monk himself were here, at least we would see him before he saw us.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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