monkhood

Example Sentences

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“I have traded the monkhood for manhood.”

From New York Times

The military and monkhood cannot be divided, he said.

From New York Times

Mr. Chan Thar Swe had left the Buddhist monkhood to write poetry more than a dozen years ago, a move that shocked his family, which had basked in the prestige of having a cleric among them, said his sister Ma Khin Sandar Win.

From New York Times

Influential monks, who count army generals among those praying at their feet, preach that the Tatmadaw and Buddhist monkhood must unite to combat Islam.

From New York Times

The New York Times writes that women seem make up the majority of participants at recent pro-democracy protests and women “are increasingly speaking out against a patriarchy that has long controlled the military, the monarchy and the Buddhist monkhood, Thailand’s most powerful institutions”.

From The Guardian