"My own experience of monastic funerals is that there is very little grief, as strange as it might seem," Scott says. For a monk in the monastery, he says, "death is seen as almost an achievement, a ...

Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the study of Indian Buddhism -- Two problems in the history of Indian Buddhism: The layman / Monk Distinction and the Doctrines of the Transference of ...

Sr Marie-Ange de Saint Chamas belonged to a monastic community of women that welcomed those with Down’s. Her life and and her recent death were a reminder that we find wholeness in reverence for the ...