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Northern area of The Promenade, Jandia, Fuerteventura. Around the site of an abandoned zoological park.
This monk came over to chat to us while we were sitting and resting in his temple. He's very friendly and said that there were 50 monks living there but the reason it was so quiet was that they were all in a back room practising their calligraphy!
We've been seeing a lot of Monk Parakeets all over South Florida lately. This one, along with a couple of others, was seen around our apartment complex in Boca Raton, FL on 5/14/09.
(Part of a Monk Parakeet Set).
I'm not sure what he was doing here, but he was the last one to start eating
Merit making ceremony at Zeeby Country House, 20/2/2013
Monks from the centuries-old Gaden Shartse Phukhang Tibetan Monastery are visiting Austin this week and building a Mandala in Austin City Hall.
Monk Monk was my favorite childhood toy/buddy. He was a boy, but he wore a pink baby dress that read "Our shining star." I never questioned it. His arm squeaked. His hand was chewed off perhaps by a cat. Monk Monk was memorialized in a series of photos before he went on to monkey trannie heaven because of a debilitating mold problem. Buzzard says his goodbyes. We'll never forget you Monk Monk. You were a good friend.
Dressed in orange robes, carrying yellow umbrellas, and could be found everywhere in the city of Phnom Penh, they are the Buddhist monks of Cambodia. A presence that surely the visitors and locals would appreciate.
Running Monk.
Taken from the medieval carvings found upon the misericords and supports within the choir stalls of Lincoln Cathedral. This is a delightful carving known as the Running Monk, carved in a very similar style and character as to the Crouching Monk. Here the Monk is seen both crouching down while running at the same time. This reproduction is taken directly from the original and captures all the fine detail by the master craftsmen that carved this work of art many years ago. Comes with wall fixing and product label.
Size (H) 10cm x (W) 12cm
ACONITE
He dragged me from Tartarus,
Chained in adamantine,
Clawing up the chasm of Acone,
My eyes seared by sunlight.
My twelve canines gleamed,
My three tongues slavered,
My triple bark splattered
Dog-spit across the green fields.
My sputum sprouted wolfsbane;
Witches flew by it.
Medea picked it for her poison;
Hecate made it hers.
I was Cereberus, the thrice
Decapitated. My three
Necks bleed. Blue flowers
Mourn my murder.
Source material: According to Greek Mythology, the triple-headed hound Cereberus was dragged to the cave of Acone, near Mariandyne on the Black Sea, by Heracles. The saliva of the dying dog generated the poisonous plant Aconite, also known as Wolfsbane and Monk’s Hood. Medea poisoned a cup of wine with the same plant in the hope of disposing of Theseus, but it is said that the poison was first used by Hecate, or indeed that Cereberus is himself a later version of the witch-goddess. See Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, 97 c and 134 g,h. When used in witches’ ointments, the plant caused fibrillation, which, when combined with the psychotropic properties of plants from the family Solanacae, resulted in a flying sensation. See Margaret Baker, Discovering the Folklore of Plants, p. 9. Poem by Giles Watson, 2002.
A young monk with sunglasses poses for a selfie during class at Tashi Lhunpo monastic school, India.
Bhutanese monks perform cham, the ancient ritual dance of Tantric Buddhism, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, at Battery Park in New York. The monks were in New York to celebrate the exhibition 'The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan' at Rubin Museum of Art through Jan. 5, 2009.
Monk on mobile at monastery of Labrang.
Located in southern Gansu on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, Labrang is one of the largest and most important monasteries in Tibetan Buddhism. Its Living Buddha or "Gegen" ranks third in importance behind the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. The monastery was largely destroyed during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, but since the 1980s monks have meticulously rebuilt and restored its temples, prayer halls, stupas and residences.
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Monks from Bhutan's Trongsa Monastery conclude their 8-day visit to New York with a performance of the Cham dance of liberation at the Statue of Liberty, Sun. Sept. 21, 2008, in New York. The monks were in New York to celebrate the exhibition 'The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan' at Rubin Museum of Art through Jan. 5, 2009. (Photo by Diane Bondareff for the Rubin Museum of Art)