monk
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Users who have downloaded his app include a strip club owner, a Buddhist monk and parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Not the monk who was his friend of 30 years, not his niece in New York.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
One is about the dog that accompanied—and inspired—the Cynic philosopher Diogenes; another centers on the canine companion of a Buddhist monk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Nobody has an answer – not Lady Eboshi, certainly not San’s wolf mother or a monk who turns out not to be a monk at all.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The start of Khao Phansa on Thursday was a joyous affair in the rural province of Samut Sakhon, featuring offerings to monks and traditional dances.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
But the action is nullified by the fact that Ono assumes the stoic posture of the Buddhist monks seen in the news at the time setting themselves aflame in protest of the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Police were also taking witness testimony from surviving monks as part of the investigation, Prayut said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Three monks remain in a critical condition and at least five others were seriously hurt.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
She wondered if right now he was begging the other monks for forgiveness or trying to lie his way out of this.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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Medieval Europe - Middle School
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