Ask the monk over there.

Flying monks.

Paldin is a 62 year old monk.

Going back tomorrow? Yes.

She can throw a whirling dervish Out of whirl

And jumping monks of Tibet.

Reverend Waizo Mama and Reverend Naendra, Buddhist monks, were also allegedly beaten severely.

Some monks were reportedly injured as a result of the use of batons.

The monks had to leave for fear of being buried alive

A 21 year old monk. He was very happy.

In some silent orders monks forget to speak.

The police took the monks into the courtyard of the police station and searched the vehicle. They then searched the monks, confiscating Thich Quang Do's mobile phone.

The bishop, red in the face, is running around in his underwear.

My own way of dealing with it was to become a monk.

Buddhist clergy are also reportedly obliged to submit to Government monitoring.

I come to see the bishop... The place is a perfect pandemonium.

We don't know who he was.

A squad of Security Police armed with electric truncheons intercepted the monks and placed them under arrest.

Leading Buddhist representatives and monks teach basic ideas of human rights.

As monks, we believe in alleviating suffering wherever we see it, as part of the vows we have taken. We could not ignore our people s suffering.

And we stitch them together like medieval monks.

Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?

Perhaps he was a Jain monk, like Bahubali over here, the Gomateshwara Bahubali whose image is not far from Mysore.

Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan, a representative of the military, recently told UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari that the marchers in the streets were bogus monks. But we are genuine, and thousands of us from Rangoon, Mandalay, Pegu, Arakan, Magwe, and Sagaing demonstrated for peace.

Many monks and nuns have been abused and beaten, and thousands who have been arrested endure continued brutality. More than 1,000 are missing, and many are presumed dead.

Let's face it, becoming a celibate monk is going to change a number of things.

And it is not only the monks who are united. When we started our peaceful marches for change, students, youth, intellectuals, and ordinary people joined us in the streets, in the rain.

A 12 day workshop was held in November and December for 27 monks coming from the provinces.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

Furthermore, several Buddhist monks and professors of religion were reportedly arrested in 1997 for having participated in peaceful demonstrations.

They then separated the monks, taking them to different places for interrogation. Thich Quang Do was taken to Ho Chi Minh City.

Many people, including Buddhist clerics and followers, as well as representatives of local authorities, have visited and wished him well.

Whilst neither of the monks was ever informed of this investigation, the Government is clearly aware of the affair.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet.

The Centre assisted in the training of these trainers, who will teach other monks throughout Cambodia in 1997.

But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked. The monks have retreated, and an eerie normalcy has returned to Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar s principal city and former capital.

Buddhism 54. During the latter half of 1996, the Centre assisted the Khmer Buddhist Society in developing new human rights education and training curricula for Buddhist monks.

For a monk to involve himself in politics or to hold a political post is contrary to the ethical code of Theravada Buddhism. But in Burma today, this spiritual philosophy, rooted in compassion and non violence, has assumed unexpected dimensions of defiance and recalcitrance, as monks challenge the hegemony of the military junta that rules our country.

What's he doing over there at Amrapali's house with all his 500 monks, and so on. They were all grumbling, and so they boycotted him.

So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

To date, there reportedly remain over 1,100 political prisoners in Myanmar, including monks, lawyers, teachers, journalists, farmers, politicians, student leaders, writers and poets.

On 9 October 2003, at 9.30 a.m., Thich Quang Do was arrested by the Nhatrang City Security Police as he was driving towards Ho Chi Minh City with a group of Buddhist monks.

Concerning Mr. Thich Huyen Quang (Le Dinh Nhan), the source reported that he is a Vietnamese citizen and Buddhist monk, aged 87, the Fourth Supreme Patriarch of UBCV.

My telephone is cut, my communications are monitored, and I am forbidden to travel Thich Vien Phuong, the young monk who filmed the message, was arrested by Security Police as he left Thanh Minh Zen Monastery and detained for several hours of intensive questioning.

The Bhutanese authorities stated Allegations of arrests of monks and religious teachers have been made in the context of allegations of discrimination by the Royal Government against the Nyingmpa school of Buddhism in favour of the Drukpa Kargyupa school.