The Court Tradition of Japan in Konjaku Monogatarishū by N. N. Trubnikova, M. S. Kolyada

“…Among the characters, there are numerous laypersons from nearly all provinces of Japan, along with residents of the capital and monks. But Japanese court tradition is represented in Konjaku as well, and not only in Chapter 22, which is devoted to officials of the Fujiwara clan. …”
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Several sentences on canonical-legal foundations of monastery creation in premongolian Russia by P. I. Gaidenko

“…If in the initial stage, in the first century after the events of the Baptism, there was maximum freedom, expressed in the fact that the majority of monastic settlements were founded solely at the desire of the monks or at the will of the princes, then over time there is a tendency to expand the rights of the hierarchs in the control of monastic life. …”
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CONTRIBUCIÓN AL CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS INTERIORES MONÁSTICOS: “¿SON ESTAS CELDAS DE MONJES O LONJAS DE MERCADERES?”. by Natalia Juan García

“…This research is based on the analysis of some letters written by the so-called visitor monks of the Order of Saint Benedict who collected comments on lifestyle and the religious observance which was followed inside the monasteries. …”
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High-Density Espalier Trained Mangoes Make Better Use of Light by Kare P. Mahmud, Paula T. Ibell, Carole L. Wright, Dave Monks, Ian Bally

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Using an ecological model of health behaviour to identify factors associated with smoking behaviour among Buddhist novices in Thailand: a cross-sectional digital survey by Sarunya Benjakul, Saroj Nakju, Wisit Thitavisiddho (Wongsai), Thawatchai Junjula

“…Two were interpersonal-level factors: the smoking behaviour of close relatives, specifically parents, and their respected monks. Two were institutional-level factors: perceiving that temple-based schools are smoke-free areas and exposure to secondhand smoke. …”
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Multi-lingual, Pluri-ethnic Orthodox Monasticism in Palestine and on Sinai, in the Light of the Liturgical Sources with Particular Reference to the Liturgical Manuscript Sinai Arab... by Andrew Wade

“…It can be shown to be of Alexandrian Melkite origin, used by Arabic-speaking monks who were part of the Sinai community. There are archaic and specifically Egyptian, and even Coptic, elements that are of special interest.…”
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Percepção de atendentes de farmácias sobre os riscos da automedicação by Graciela Saalfeld Conrad, Claiton Leoneti Lencina, Juliane Fernandes Monks da Silva, Paulo Maximiliano Corrêa

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Everyday Life of the Ukrainian Parochial Clergy of the Late 16th — First Half of the 17th Century (Based on the Work “Perspective” by Cassian Sakowicz) by Mykhailo Dovbyshchenko

“…The author argues that despite the low level of professional ability of the priests and lack of special educational institutions, the representatives of higher Uniate clergy and well-educated monks from the Basilian Fathers’ community did their best to improve the educational level and religious upbringing of the parochial priests. …”
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HO_x observations over West Africa during AMMA: impact of isoprene and NO_x by G. Mills, D. Stewart, J. G. Murphy, A. C. Lewis, J. Lee, J. Hopkins, J. F. Hamilton, R. Purvis, P. S. Monks, D. M. Brookes, J. B. McQuaid, C. F. A. Floquet, T. Ingham, R. Commane, M. J. Evans, D. Stone, D. Oram, C. E. Reeves, D. E. Heard

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Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms, and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor by Kati Fitzgerald

“…The Preliminary Practices not only initiate practitioners into a specific tradition (that of the Drikung Kagyu and more specifically the Amitabha practices of this lineage), but also more fundamentally into Vajrayāna Buddhism as it is practiced in contemporary Tibet. Although monks and male lay practitioners in this region also tend to perform the same Preliminary Practices, I focus specifically on women because of their unique relationship with bodily labor. …”
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Measuring the Psychological and Physiological Responses of Humans Experiencing Sacred Architectural Space in XR: a Case Study at the Monastery of Simonos Petra by Vlavianos, Nikolaos

“…Through a high-quality XR protocol -- consisting of the experimental procedure, data collection, and data analysis -- the research achieves assessments of different parametrically-manipulated conditions of light, sound, texture and scale at Simonos Petra Monastery in Greece, and compares these assessments to the lived experience of monks in the physical sacred space. These assessments were possible through the introduction of novel metrics for data analysis that utilized the questionnaire data, GSR Mean Score and Accelerometer Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD score) to numerically support qualitative observations influenced by spatial and human factors. …”
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Ecclesiastical penance in the Church of Constantinople by Barringer, R

“…</p> <p>The cumulative weight of the evidence supports the following conclusions about the history of Byzantine penance: 1) ecclesiastical penance did not cease to exist in the Byzantine churches following the "Nectarius incident" of 391/2; 2) monastic influence upon the outward form and inner understanding of ecclesiastical penance spread gradually from the fourth century onwards and was not a sudden phenomenon provoked by the events of the iconoclastic age; 3) the constitutive elements of the modern Greek practice of confession can be found in the practice of Byzantine lay people already in the fifth and sixth centuries, but the Lives of the saints nowhere suggest that confession was ever an obligation upon the laity in the period under survey or that a majority of the Byzantine faithful had recourse to the institutions of ecclesiastical'penance as a normal or routine part of their religious practice; 4) the phenomenon of unordained monks consciously exercising the apostolic power of binding and loosing was not, as Holl asserted, a central and informing element in the history of Byzantine penitential practice; 5) enthusiasm for hagiographical sources as privileged reflectors of the Byzantine popular milieu must be tempered by a realistic appreciation of the limitations inherent in the narrative forms and techniques of hagiography.…”

Fortune and the body: physiognomy in Ming China by Wang, X

“…Physiognomy was practiced by very diverse groups of people across various religious and social communities including Buddhist monks, Daoist priests, local literati, and so on. …”

Between two civilisations by Tinti, P, Tinti, Paola G.

“…Their practices were "reformed" in 1856 by Burmese monks.</p> <p>An analysis of the historical material reveals a tendency by non-Buddhist Bengalis to downplay any relationship between the Buddhist traditions of Burma and Bangladesh, and to represent Buddhism as a phenomenon of the past. …”

Towards serving the mankind: The role of the Ramakrishna mission and human development in India by Mitra, Karabi

“…The paper will address how Swamiji inaugurated a humanist movement amidst numerous challenges and was successful to leave a progeny of saffron-clad monks dedicated to the well being of the mankind.…”
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Unknown letter of hieroschemamonk Antoniy (Bulatovich) to Emperor Nicholas II as a source for the history of the skete “Black Whirlpool” and the history of “disputes of name-glorif... by Sergey Shumylo

“…It fi lls a number of gaps in Bulatovich’s biography in 1912, particularly regarding his attempts after returning from Ethiopia to acquire the abandoned former “Cossack” skete “Black Whirlpool” to resettle his like-minded monks, former “retired military men” and “Name-Glorifi ers”. …”
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Electing and educating priests in the Church of Antioch in the second half of 4th century according to st. John Chrysostom’s "De sacerdotio" by Alenka Arko

“…Some of the worthy and experienced monks refused the priesthood in turn preferring, a quiet eremitic life. …”
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The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine and Purbo B. Baldanzhapov’s Contribution to Its Study and Preservation by Sesegma G. Zhambalova

“…The study of the forgotten monument was initiated by Baldanzhapov in 1968 when he organized a scientific department at the Buryat Institute of Social Sciences, and the research team included both secular and clerical scholars, i. e. previously repressed Buryat Buddhist monks with expertise in Tibetan, philosophy, and medicine. …”
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Presencia de Pb, Cr y Ni en peces de la especie Xiphophorus birmanni del rio Calnali, Hidalgo by Miriam Estrada Segura, Claudia Romo Gómez, Scott Williams Monks Sheets, María Teresa Leal Ascencio, Yolanda Marmolejo Santillán

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Biological Variation in Biochemistry Analytes in Laboratory Guinea Pigs (<i>Cavia porcellus</i>) by Gabriele Rossi, Kwei-Farn Liu, Helen Kershaw, Dayna Riddell, Timothy H. Hyndman, Deborah Monks, Gabrielle C. Musk

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