I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, so he kind of wishes he were a great white shark.

Paldin is a 62 year old monk.

A 21 year old monk. He was very happy.

I trained briefly as a Buddhist monk under this guy.

And this is a temple in Japan for a Buddhist monk.

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

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

If I were in this condition at any point before a few cosmological instants ago, I would be as isolated as a hermit.

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

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

2005 I did a BASE jump from the Eiger, from the Monk and from the Jungfrau, three very famous mountains in Switzerland.

We're staring at everybody, waiting our turn to speak, and he leans over to me, and he says, Jody, I'm a Buddhist monk.

We're in 17th century Japan on the west coast, and a little, wizened monk is hurrying along, near midnight, to the crest of a small hill.

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.

Some ask what value Kim s hermit kingdom provides that prevents China from acting decisively others wonder to what extent Chinese leaders domestic concerns continue to inhibit their willingness to switch course on North Korea.

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.

TOKYO Brinkmanship seems to be congenital in North Korea. Under the late Kim Jong il s pudgy young successor his third son, Kim Jong un, dubbed the Young General threats and mendacity still mark the Hermit Kingdom s diplomacy.

I'm there the one in blue, not the yellow holding a bowl of holy water for the monk to sprinkle holy water on pills and condoms for the sanctity of the family.

But it is also not the hermit state of the 1950s, having moved significantly toward a market economy in recent years. Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four fifths of an average North Korean s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

According to the information submitted by the source, Mr. Thich Quang Do (Dang Phuc Tue), a Vietnamese citizen and Buddhist monk, born on 27 November 1928, is the head of the Vien Hoa Dao, the Executive Institute of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (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.

Indeed, President Thein Sein s government has begun to release thousands of political prisoners, including the monk who led the massive street protests of 2007. Sein s government has also listened to Burmese public disquiet at China s massive influence in the country, and has canceled a huge 3.6 billion dam that Chinese firms were building.

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.

Thanks mainly to the export of Buddhism from India to China, Chinese came to Indian universities, visited Indian courts, and wrote memorable accounts of their voyages. Nalanda received hundreds of Chinese students in its time, and a few Indians went the other way a Buddhist monk from India built the famous Lingyin Si temple in Huangzhou in the fifth century.