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You know, i have never imagined envying monks for anything. Their life seems to be pretty empty and plain for an outsider, they don’t travel as much, and they don’t seem to be having fun with what they’re doing. I think i do envy them for one thing though - the places they pray and live in.
Yumbulagang Monastery
Gradac Monastery
Rievaulx Abbey
Strahov Monastery (Interior)
Lake Inle Monastery
“Jumping Cats” Monastery
Montserrat Monastery
…or maybe digg this?
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January 1st, 2007 at 8:00 pm
So, you’re posting these images, surrounded by ads, and you’ve not credited the original source or the photographer. That’s lame.
January 1st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Who paid for these places? The brainwashed peasants afraid of a hellish afterlife? Not very honorable.
January 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Although the Yumbulagang Monastery looks beatiful here, if the camera pans to the right you’ll see the large Chinese town around the base of the hill catering to the large tourist trade. The monastery itself is a great place but very small - I long winter here may have you wishing for central heating again!
January 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I want to go live in a monastery!
http://www.g-zus.net/
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:13 am
This would be 5x better if the pictures had locations, in addition to name of monastery
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 am
Would rock if I wasn’t certain that every single one of those books wasn’t a Bible. Too bad
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:40 am
Would rock if I wasn’t certain that every single one of those books wasn’t a Bible.
That shows how much you know about monasticism. Christian monks saved literacy, science, and many other things by maintaining and copying collections of manuscripts during the Dark Ages.
Saying that every book in that library must be a Bible would be akin to me suggesting that every book in your house is an annual bound collection of Mad Magazine. That’s because monastic libraries contain not only theology, but also works of science and literature; everything from Isidore’s Etymologies to Boethius.
Please, become informed instead of spouting ignorance.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Absolutely stunning. Makes it pretty easy to obtain that “oneness” when your crib is the likes of one of those.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:24 pm
That shows how much you know about monasticism. Christian monks saved literacy, science, and many other things by maintaining and copying collections of manuscripts during the Dark Ages.
Saying that every book in that library must be a Bible would be akin to me suggesting that every book in your house is an annual bound collection of Mad Magazine. That’s because monastic libraries contain not only theology, but also works of science and literature; everything from Isidore’s Etymologies to Boethius.
Please, become informed instead of spouting ignorance.
You mean all of those dandy little missives on Aristotelian science, physics, and analytical theory? Those are nearly as far from science as Mad Magazine; more so due in part to their noxious defense by the Church. I would, however, give all that I have to simply browse the pages. What history…
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Where’s Meteora?
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
I have been to Jumping Cat Monastary, which is on the Inle Lake in Myanmar (Burma). They call it the Jumping Cat Monastary for a reason: the monks there tought the all of the 30 or so cats to jump through hoops. If stand in front of one and make a hoop with your arms out in front of you, the cats will backflip through it. It’s pretty amazing.
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January 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I live in Barcelona [Spain] near Monserrat and ride my bike around and over this wierd rock formation the that the monastery is built on.
The picture doesn’t do the area justice and the monastery is perch high on this spine of rock, which looks from a plane like a whale breaking the surface when viewed from a plane as I was fortunate to see while flying in from Madrid.
Plan to do some climbing there this year as there are over 2000 routes there. You can get a train and funicular tram up to the monastery from Barcelona’s Sants station.
More info is a good idea, but at the end of the day if your interested you can google it, eh?!
:O)
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 am
You forgot to say that the picture at the top is Madonna del Sasso, above Locarno, Switzerland.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 am
Where should one inform the travel agent of in terms of destination if looking to book a visit to these places? Or is that too much to ask?
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:06 am
For Rowd:
The Philosophical Hall contains more than 42,000 volumes covering themes from philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, history, philology.
The Theological Hall stores more than 18,000 volumes. This hall’s name comes from the fact that is contains numerous editions of the Bible or parts of the Bible in many languages.
The Cabinet of Curiosities houses natural science collections, mainly with sea fauna, complemented with collections of insects, minerals, and wax replicas of fruit, archaeological collections: ceramics, handcuffs, Hussite peasant weapons. A very appreciated curiosity is the remains of a Dodo bird (Dodo ineptus), now extinct.
More: http://www.strahovskyklaster.cz/index2.asp?zobraz=knihovna&stranka=2&lang=2
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:34 am
Very nice pictures, but I’d rather take the stuff that comes with not being a monk!
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January 4th, 2007 at 12:01 am
its amazing how ignorant people are about what happens at monasteries…..”Their life seems to be pretty empty and plain for an outsider, they don’t travel as much, and they don’t seem to be having fun with what they’re doing.”
Their life can an usually is the most exciting life one can lead on this earth…..most are trying to be the best person they can be by using meditation, prayer, martial arts, study of the world, study of the self, awareness and the list goes on, to better themselves and understand themselves and the world around them.
Want to get out of your mundain existence of working, sleeping, partying…or whatever you do and will continue to do for the rest of your life? Become a Monk and rock your world.
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