monastic
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In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The monastic community extended "its heartfelt condolences to her family and friends".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Buddhism-themed tourism is thriving and tens of thousands of locals and foreigners sign up every year for "temple stay" retreats where they eat simple monastic food, do chores and meditate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
“We were supposed to live uncomfortable lives. And I was sort of monastic about it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
It was then that he suggested visiting the hills at Udayagiri and Khandagiri, where a number of monastic dwellings were hewn out of the ground, facing one another across a defile.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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