monkhood

Example Sentences

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The gig becomes a lonely endeavor, however, when the pandemic hits and he’s confined to a depopulated campus, sent unwillingly into a kind of monkhood.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

After his parents died in Myanmar when he was a boy, he entered the Buddhist monkhood in Thailand for nearly a decade, a common option for orphans untethered from financial support.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2018

He was once ordained as a Buddhist monk, and since leaving the monkhood has spent much of his time caring for his grandmother.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2018

Fifty years ago, Luang Poh Yaai lived as a Buddhist monk - a first for a woman in Thailand where religious authorities bar females from the monkhood.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2016

A monk need not necessarily teach; the aim and object of the monkhood is, as I have written in the last chapter, purity and abstraction from the world.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)