#Monks

As my colleagues (shout out to @ProfIRMF and @mpgPhD ) regularly point out, religion is what people do. The idea that monks are “supposed to renounce worldly affairs” is just

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The fact that a Sunni Muslim family has been babysitting the keys to the Holy Sepulcher for 1400 years to reduce fistfights among monks fascinates and delights me.https://twitter.com/DavidVidecette/status/1246785553900724224 Like how

Did you know that Egyptians say that they brought Christianity to Ireland? Here's the story as it was told to me.There was a king of Ireland in the 2nd or

Doing research on Monk fashion is not something I thought I would do, or thought would be as diffICULT AS IT IS but here we are... Did you know their

You may or may not know, but one of the gifts of my life is working with the lovely Benedictines that are behind the "online monastery" - translating monastic wisdom

In folklore and religion alike, there is an extremely deep seated superstition that the mere act of wishing harm upon another person will in some way cause harm to come

Bodhidharma: The Barbarian Mastercredited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China that later evolved into Zen Buddhism in Japan he also began the physical training of the monks of

Inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi at Perumalmalai in Tamil Nadu.The inscription are dated to 3rd century BCE or older, this is amongst the oldest decipherable writings anywhere in IndiaThe inscriptions say

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

Thread: I really like this humorous & colourful Irish poem, written before 1330AD. I’ve translated it from Old English to catch the satire. It’s a distinctly Anglo-Irish version of The

Happy Easter from the 13th century! This table shows the movable feasts from 1273 to 1396, all carefully calculated by a monk at Cerne Abbey in Dorset. But the column

zane and kai would be a frost and fire mage respectfully and while zane would be more calculating, kai would not give a fuck and hit every enemy in sight

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oh GOD, watching the 2000s-era linkin park music videos is just. oh my god. it's so, so painfully 90s I can't believe I thought the "in the end" music video

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1) According to Shatpath Brahman, राष्ट्रं वा अश्वमेध It is important to note that Vedic Sanskrit is void of any nouns, which means that every word has It's meaning. अश्व

🇪🇪 Rygabert

Vend Vahindra (1883-1962) was a perennial Estonian Buddhist who respected our native maausk, Taara, Jesus and Confucious. He called upon Genghis Khan to establish theocratic Pan-Baltic state along with Finno-Ugrians

Exposing Bolshevism

In Voronezh, seven nuns were boiled in a cauldron of tar. The bishop of Voronezh was boiled alive in a big pot; after which the monks, with revolvers aimed at

Mateusz Fafinski

In the Early Middle Ages only the clergy could read and write, right? And if there were some lay people that could they were only men, right? It's impossible that