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I met this guy outside our guesthouse in Patong Beach one sunny morning. He was passing by, while I was busy preparing myself to step out on 40c and 70% humid reality.....
Usually budhist monks are world apart and not socialising with foreigners ''farangs'' , but NOT this guy....after exchanging nods he make himself comfortable on the chair and start conversation. His English was at the same level as my Thai unfortunately, but his calmness, happiness, willingness to help is something I will never forget . He make my day, and i will remember him for a long time,
young monks in rural Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. they welcomed me to their pagoda and i was glad to spend some time with them.
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Benefactions board: "The Hon'ble Lady Alice Dudley according to the trst in her reposed by Aleezia her daughter, did give unto ye vicars of this parish twenty pounds p. ann. for ever in lands lying in the parish of Manceter in this county; She also gave to this parish one gilded flagon, one gilded bread bowl & one gilded chalice for the use of the blessed sacrament.
Thomas Cook of Pailton gave by will an arable land to this church, for the maintenance thereof lying in Pailton field towards Easenhull, upon Cross furlong ... butting into Bugby way and Easenhull highway;
There is another land belonging to this church in Pailton feild towards Newnham called nether fenns furlong;
John King gave by will yearly for ever unto the poor of Monks Kirby town, out of lands in Strettastion lordship called Fatt furlong, ye sum of ten shillings viz o3 s o4d at Christmas, the same sum at Easter and the same at Whitsuntide;
Mr Lea of Rugby gave by will the interest of two pounds to be yearly distributed in bread to the poor on St Matthias day for ever;
Mr Henry Gough, late steward to the Earl of Denbigh, gave by will the interest of ten pounds to be yearly distributed in bread to poor communicants at Easter for ever
Mr William Miller (father & son) gave by will Gills Close near Pailton, ordering the rent of it (a cheif of five shillings being paid) to be yearly distributed among the poor of ye constable ward of Monks Kirby at ye discretion of their executors & their heirs for ever;
Thomas Sutton, late gardiner to ye Earl of Denbigh, gave by will ye interest of five pounds, to be distributed yearly in bread to ye poor of Monks Kirby & Brockhurst on Trinity Sunder for ever;
William Lorden and Richard Lea; Church wardens 1714"
Church of St Edith, Monks Kirby Warwickshire
Picture with thanks - copyright Andrew H Jackson britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101034855-church-of-st-edith...
Every day at 3 pm, Monks have a show of mental dexterity by challenging each other to knowledge drills on scripture. This heated exchange keeps them alert and active in their spiritual pursuits. The sitting monk is allowed to stay in place until the standing monk has bested him in his knowledge. The exchanges show the monks burning desire for self improvement. The event is an exciting time each day, a lot of people come to view the proceedings with reverence.
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The Monks at Bransholme North off the roundabout as you head towards Kingswood and Bransholme North these are beautiful wood carvings on your left if driving into the area. Taken on the 31 March 2019
Strange one this, I'd just got off the night bus from Yangon at 5am and from 9am I spent the rest of the day on the back of a motorbike getting a guided tour of the ancient cities around Mandalay. I wasn't fussed by coming to see the unusual tourist spot of watching the monks at a monestrey near Amarapura collect their food for the day, but my driver said we should go. They get 'fed' at around 10.30am and are not allowed to eat at all after midday. It is a very hard life they live as monks.
Officially known as the Monks Cowl, I think this guy looks more like a North American Indian, so I call him Jeronimo.
Penninis head, Isles of Scilly. Rollei Vb, welding glass, f something for quite a long time.
Nestled in the heart of rural Sussex, Monk’s House is a tranquil 17th-century weatherboarded cottage inhabited by Leonard and the novelist Virginia Woolf from 1919 until Leonards death in 1969.
The Woolfs bought Monk's House for the 'shape and fertlity and wildness of the garden'. Today, the lovely cottage garden contains a mix of flowers, vegetables, orchards, lawns and ponds.
Taken from: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house/
We spent a month in Laos backpacking through the country, it was such an amazing place and on our journey we spent a week in a town called Laung Prabang which is home to so many temples well over 50 of them and every morning hundreds and hundreds of monks walk the streets collecting Alms ..It really is an amazing place and on our second day in Luang prabang we rented peddle bikes and grabbed a map of the town and we set off on a temple finding mission. The temples are always open to anyone who would like to go there, and as we were at a temple on the North of town we meet a monk named Khmsouk. There was none at the temple and he was outside sweeping the grounds and he took a minute to talk to us and invited us back to the temple that night at 6:45pm for the monks daily chants and prayers. We gladly accepted his offer and that night when we came back we spent 40 minutes inside a small temple with 9 monks as they chanted there prayers in unison..It was so overwhelming here we are in Laos immersed in this hypnotic wave of heat just trying to take all this in --it again was one of the best days ive had and i keep it close to me -----
-After the chants were done Khmsouk came over to us and asked if we would like to join him outside and we could talk to him. So we went and sat on this old wooden swing under a mango tree and talked for over 3 hours khmsock explained so much about Buddhism and how he had been in this temple from the age of 13 and he was now 21 and this was his last year of studies and he was to make a decision if he wanted to stay in this temple and become a monk for the rest of his life or he could leave in 5 months after his studies were done --He had spent 8 years in this temple and said he loved it so much but its just hard in these days now to be a Monk when the world is evolving so fast outside and everything has changed in the last 15 years in Laung Prabang --how its hard for the monks to collect food in the morning at alms as less people are helping them as traditions slowly fade away ---It was so sad to hear him talk about that and he said that most Monks now are leaving the Temples in search of there new life --Its not a bad thing he said and it just makes life different and he said we all must embrace change and having good people out there in the world that were monks is just as important for the reason on how he said he would do good in a different way just by being a good person and helping people out people ----Khmsouk invited me and tam back the next day for chants and again we spent hours sitting in that wooden bench talking --he would ask us about Canada and how our country is and how we live here and we would ask him about Laos tradition and Buddhism---It was such a humbling experience and we spent 5 nights riding our peddle bikes 40 minutes across town to meet up with Khmsouk.....It was such an important part of my life for me ----
Specs ---Side note did i really get to light paint a monk? for real--That was awesome ----one of the days when we were there Khmsouk was asking me about my job and i told him i was a photographer back in Canada and as we started talking i asked him if i could do a Light Painting photo of him --He was more then willing and i explained what light painting was and how you have your camera on a tripod at night in the dark and then you take a long photo and move around lights during that photo --ahaha that was confusing but he was in to try it out so i got all my gear and i light painted Khmsouk sitting in the wooden swing where we hung out every night ---I choose the blue colored smoke for that color combo of the Orange robe he was wearing
no photoshop
A huge thanks to Khmsouk for all his thoughts and teachings and for effecting my life in such a positive way
I didn't start out with this in mind, but sort of discovered a resemblance while playing around with a design in Pattern Artist.
Cong Abbey is a historic site located at Cong, on the borders of counties Galway and Mayo, in Ireland's province of Connacht. Founded in the early 7th century, by Saint Feichin, the abbey was destroyed by fire in the early 12th century. Turlough Mor O’Connor, the High King of Ireland, refounded the abbey circa 1135. His son Rory O'Connor, the last High King of Ireland before the Norman invasion, constructed new buildings and also lived the last 15 years of his life at the abbey[1], dying in 1198. The monastery adopted the Augustinian rule some years later.
The Norman knight, William de Burgh, attacked Cong in 1203, and again the abbey was rebuilt.
The present church, and possibly the fragmentary cloister where the monks worked and prayed, belong to the rebuilding of the early 13th century. The north doorway of the church, and the elaborate doorways that open onto the cloister from the east range of the monastery, may pre-date the attack by William de Burgo. The doorway with two fine windows on either side belongs to the chapter house, where the monastery’s daily business was conducted as well as a chapter of the rule being read each day. This was also where the community gathered to confess their sins publicly. The sculpture in the abbey, which is some of the finest in Ireland, suggests links to French styles of the period.
The grounds of the abbey also contain a monk’s fishing house, probably built in the 15th or 16th century, on the bank of the River Cong leading towards nearby Lough Corrib. The house is built on a platform of stones over a small arch which allows the river to flow underneath the floor. There is a trapdoor in the floor which may have been used for a net, and the monks could sit beside the fireplace making the task of catching fish a little more comfortable. It is thought that a line was connected from the fishing house to the monastery kitchen to alert the cook to fresh fish.
Three masked Tibetan monks waiting to dance at the Tibetan monastery of Yazer Gon in Manigango.
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we had a medival feast night for my co-op a while back and i decided to go as a monk. So Mrs. Mayo gave this hair cut.......i had so much fun.
pc: Furman
p.s. thank you Quin for getting this to me
The Mandalay Airport - Monks have a reserved row of seats, marked in orange. Monks get small perks throughout the country. In this case - it's more practical: since monks can not touch women, their seating needs to be segregated to avoid rubbing elbows.
I made these two for a swap with Odd Dotty. We had a "inspired by the picture" doll swap and it was a lot of fun.
This guy is a tiny monk figure. The cape is removable, he looks like an alien without it.
Today would have been Thelonious Sphere Monk's 100th birthday. He is one of my all time favorite musicians/composers.
He is among those who resonate in a deeply personal manner for each fan. The downside to this is that in making a totem of him certain apocryphal facts are perpetuated depending upon who he is needed to be in the eyes of an admirer.
Far from a musical "primitive" his playing and compositions (often in elliptical patterns utilizing dissonance) was advance.
In his repertoire he only performed a few (obscure) covers but many of his own pieces have gone on to become standards.
Two recommendations for those unfamiliar w/his work would be "Genius of Modern Music vol 2 " (Blue Note records) or "Monk's Music" (Riverside). Not necessarily his best but perfect place to start as they are the most straight ahead.
New Russian paper quickie
There were maybe 30 young monks all helping to paint the temple walls here. I'm not sure how he's wearing a hat because it was must have been about 40 degrees.
Detail of the iron tie bar added to support the roof when the roof beams were removed to allow the gallery to be added.
Monks Siding signal box located by the Down Goods line alongside Beaufort Street level crossing in Warrington. Friday 29th May 1987
Monks Siding signal box is a London and North Western Railway type 3 design which opened in 1875 fitted with a 20 lever London and North Western Railway Tumbler frame. The steps were originally located at the opposite end of the signal box, but they were moved to Liverpool end of the signal box to allow the level crossing to be widened, possibly in conjunction with the level crossing gates being replaced by full width lifting barriers on 20th December 1976. The signal box was rewindowed with uPVC windows sometime by June 2003. The diagram was replaced by in the shape of a TEW SM48 panel on 9th July 2012 with an emergency replacement for 2R signal being included in it in connection with resignalling between Monks Siding and Arpley Junction signal boxes
The signal box carries an ill-fitting London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard and a non standard window sash by the front corner post
In the background are (left to right) 3 and 17 signals, while A signal protects the level crossing.
3 signal (Starting Down Goods) is carried on a tubular post with a distant arm below it which is controlled by Littons Mill Crossing signal box 14 lever (up goods inner distant) and Crosfields Crossing signal box 14 lever (up goods outer distant).
17 signal (Home Down Goods) is carried on a British Railways London Midland Region two doll left hand bracket with an all-welded stem along with 20 signal (down goods to B.S.C. sidings)
A signal is a two aspect colour light signal carried on a tubular post which applied to the two B.S.C. sidings that passed over the level crossing behind the signal box. It was one of two signals, A and B which cleared automatically when the level crossing barriers were lowered
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