I am a monk.

I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, so he kind of wishes he were a great white shark.

A monk walking in a community plaza

Trying to understand the Hermit Kingdom can be like staring into a black hole.

During the 19th century, Korea's isolationist policy earned it the name the Hermit Kingdom .

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He was initially a monk at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes.

She is now a prostitute, and is spending her time with a monk, Brother Giroflée.

If I were in this condition at any point before a few cosmological instants ago, I would be as isolated as a hermit.

Richard subsequently spent 6 years studying at Oxford University before becoming a monk at St Albans.

It is the name of a sūtra prepared by a monk in the early 16th century.

Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator who ruled the hermit kingdom for the past three decades, has died at the age of 69.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt visited North Korea last month and his daughter shared in her blog what the delegation saw in the hermit kingdom.

After all, he starred in the 2011 film about the life of the mad monk Grigory Rasputin.

A Moscovite monk called Isidore used this technology to produce the first original Russian vodka c. 1430.

In the year 1011, a monk named Byrhtferð recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

Perhaps he was a Jain monk, like Bahubali over here, the Gomateshwara Bahubali whose image is not far from Mysore.

One of them is the Mediterranean Monk Seal which is considered to be among the world's most endangered marine mammals.

We're staring at everybody, waiting our turn to speak, and he leans over to me, and he says, Jody, I'm a Buddhist monk.

For a monk to involve himself in politics or to hold a political post is contrary to the ethical code of Theravada Buddhism.

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

We're in 17th century Japan on the west coast, and a little, wizened monk is hurrying along, near midnight, to the crest of a small hill.

While he was still in his teens, his father sent him on a pilgrimage with a wandering monk named Chidambaranatha Yogi to gain musical and philosophical knowledge.

During his conflict with Pskov, a monk named Filofei (Philotheus of Pskov) composed a letter to Ivan III, with the prophecy that the latter's kingdom will be the Third Rome.

I'm there the one in blue, not the yellow holding a bowl of holy water for the monk to sprinkle holy water on pills and condoms for the sanctity of the family.

The practice of clerical marriage was initiated in the West by the followers of Martin Luther, who himself, a former priest and monk, married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in 1525.

Having escaped by chance from the fate to which his lineage would have assigned him, Shi Tao assumed the name Yuanji Shi Tao no later than 1651 when he became a Buddhist monk.

The general assembly of North Korea s Workers Party, now underway for the first time in 44 years, is the clearest sign yet that Dear Leader Kim, who is seriously ill, is passing the crown in the hermit kingdom founded by his father, Kim Il sung.

Nalanda received hundreds of Chinese students in its time, and a few Indians went the other way a Buddhist monk from India built the famous Lingyin Si temple in Huangzhou in the fifth century.

Due to the political and social unrest caused by the fall of the Sui dynasty, he went to Chengdu in Sichuan, where he was ordained as a bhikṣu (full monk) at the age of twenty.

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

The mood at the service was solemn, and the monk leading the service called on the community to pray for peace and to offer up their prayers and merits for those who perished in the protests.

Another calculation had been developed by the Alexandrian monk Annianus around the year AD 400, placing the Annunciation on 25 March AD 9 (Julian) eight to ten years after the date that Dionysius was to imply.

Edward Gibbon, for example, said the nonsense of the Monk was, nevertheless, mingled with the practical knowledge of the traveller and used it in writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .

Before rising to the primacy of the see of Jerusalem, he was a monk and theologian who was the chief protagonist for Orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential nature of Jesus and his volitional acts.

You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory billed woodpecker, for the Eskimo curlew, for the Caribbean monk seal, for the woolly mammoth.

Abbé Faria (), or Abbé (Abbot) José Custódio de Faria, (31 May 1756 20 September 1819), was a Goan Catholic monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Mesmer.

It's more about what's inside the taxis in Bangkok the menagerie of gods, goddesses, deities, and monk statuettes, flowers, and other trinkets chosen for their ability to protect the driver and the car, and to assure that the driver has ample passengers.

Millennialist movements were very common in Europe at that time between 760 and 780 a series of cosmic phenomena caused panic among the population of Gaul John, a visionary monk, predicted the coming of the Last Judgement during the reign of Charlemagne.

Concerning Mr. Thich Huyen Quang (Le Dinh Nhan), the source reported that he is a Vietnamese citizen and Buddhist monk, aged 87, the Fourth Supreme Patriarch of UBCV. His religious name, by which he will be referred to hereafter, is Thich Huyen Quang.

For many, the rise to power in Florence of the austere monk Girolamo Savonarola in 1494 1498 marks the end of the city's flourishing for others, the triumphant return of the Medici marks the beginning of the late phase in the arts called Mannerism.

According to the information submitted by the source, Mr. Thich Quang Do (Dang Phuc Tue), a Vietnamese citizen and Buddhist monk, born on 27 November 1928, is the head of the Vien Hoa Dao, the Executive Institute of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV).

Apart from his dedication to this cause, he participated in few other activities, the majority of which were related to his Catholic faith in 1916 he participated in a course about Gregorian chant at the Palau de la Música Catalana taught by the Benedictine monk Gregori M. Sunyol.

Popular culture In Western culture, Raijin is usually known as Raiden (rai (雷, thunder) den (電, lightning)), and depicted as a tall monk wearing a large straw hat (these hats are used widely throughout Asia to keep off rain), with the power to create storms, thunder, and lightning.