Monks!

And jumping monks of Tibet.

This year it is monks in Tibet.

And we stitch them together like medieval monks.

Monks at the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh.

The police took the monks into the courtyard of the police station and searched the vehicle. They then searched the monks, confiscating Thich Quang Do's mobile phone. They then separated the monks, taking them to different places for interrogation. Thich Quang Do was taken to Ho Chi Minh City.

And it is not only the monks who are united.

Many Korean monks went to China to learn about Buddhism.

Voltaire transferred the image of bloodsucking vampires to speculators, merchants, kings, and monks.

They have attacked monasteries and arrested monks and nuns by force.

At least three people were killed and around 100 monks arrested.

But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked. The monks have retreated, and an eerie normalcy has returned to Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar s principal city and former capital.

The monks are the preservers of dharma by attacking them, the generals attack Buddhism itself.

Most students, and probably the leading monks and nuns, came from aristocratic families.

An overwhelming number of Burma s Buddhist monks have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks self restraint to increase the pressure on other believers.

A squad of Security Police armed with electric truncheons intercepted the monks and placed them under arrest.

We formed the Sangha Coalition when we saw that the country s monks were united.

Last year, it was Burma s Buddhist monks who were shot and beaten with batons.

Early Christian monks maintained these records and used the techniques in their own artworks.

Whilst neither of the monks was ever informed of this investigation, the Government is clearly aware of the affair.

Soldiers from 33 Battalion knelt down and requested the protesting monks to stop the protest.

Burma is a deeply religious country, where most men spend some time as Buddhist monks.

Many of the monks replied, You may shoot but we will still march , and carried on with their marches.

As monks, we believe in alleviating suffering wherever we see it, as part of the vows we have taken.

Myanmar s generals deserve to be condemned for their brutal crackdown on civilian protestors and Buddhist monks.

All in all, Shenouda tried as much as possible to employ the monks in their old professions.

YANGON Religious orders of monks have been the face of Burma ever since Buddhism was introduced here more than 1,000 years ago.

Indeed, an Olympic boycott will become more likely if scenes of murdered or brutalized Buddhist monks are flashed around the world.

Qozhaya was at its pinnacle in the first part of the 19th Century with more than 300 monks belonging to it.

At the end of the game she chooses to leave Albion to go study with the Warrior Monks in the north.

Many monks and nuns have been abused and beaten, and thousands who have been arrested endure continued brutality.

The latter pages of his work are devoted to rebutting the criticism of his fellow monks that what he was saying was wrong.

It is not a mark of a superpower s quiet, self confident authority to beat up Buddhist monks and attack their spiritual leader.

Within a century, local government offices report that there 360,000 monks and nuns in 1078, representing about ten percent of the population.

In 1488, Franciscan monks established a monastery which continues to exist today as the world s oldest permanently existing cloister of this order.

In Burma, the power of educated Buddhist monks people who are unarmed and peace loving by their very nature has risen up against the military regime. That monks are leading the protests is no great surprise to those who have taken a long term interest in the situation in Burma.

Monks find their life s meaning in a most austere environment, and military boot camps are thought to build character.

They adopted Buddhism, which, like their alphabet, came from northern India in the 1st century of the 1st millennium, through the proselytism of Kushan monks.

Monasteries and temples are exploited as tourist attractions, while government agents try to ensure that the monks stay in line.

Monks from Mandalay monasteries including those from ThaTaNa monk college marched for protest and were blocked at 42nd street by soldiers of 33 battalion.

Since the 1990 s crackdown, human rights violations have continued, most recently with the suppression of the protests led by Buddhist monks in 2007.

The soldiers knelt down, shed tears and finally they stepped down to let the monks go, reported the witnesses from Mandalay.

But, having debunked the vampire myth, Western intellectuals proceeded to refashion it. Voltaire transferred the image of bloodsucking vampires to speculators, merchants, kings, and monks.

Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan, a representative of the military, recently told UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari that the marchers in the streets were bogus monks.

One of them is we have better reporting. The Associated Press is a better chronicler of wars over the surface of the Earth than sixteenth century monks were.