The monastery was originally dedicated to the memory of the fourth-century ascetic Bishoi [Pshoi], but in the 1990s the church was additionally dedicated to his contemporary Bigol [Pcol]. For these ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

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Dominating the skyline of Lhasa, the Potala Palace—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—stands as a magnificent symbol of Tibetan spirituality and architecture. Rising to an elevation of 3,750 meters and ...

Introduction : encountering the monastery -- In search of "Drunken Peacocks" : mapping monastic histories from forest to state -- Inscribing asceticism : epigraphic practices and the materiality of ...

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