Tag: Ecclesiastical Dress

monastic, orders, costumes, habit, monks, nuns,

Monastic habit of spiritual orders from Poland, Germany and Flanders from the 10th to the 18th century.

Habit of different nun orders. Ecclesiastical Monastic orders.

Nuns, Habit, costume, Dominicans, Catholic Order,

Female religious habit at the end of the eighteenth century. Nuns who live according to the Rule of St. Augustine, St. Dominic, St. Benedict and of Saint Angela Merici.

The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery about 1870.

9/28/19

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John Thomson, Monastery, China, Abbot, Monks, Gushan, Buddhist,

The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”

Tolling of Buddhist Bells and the series of 108 strokes.

9/19/19

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Buddhist, monk, Yuan Fu, Monastery, China, bell

In almost all Buddhist monasteries, may be seen a bell, which is tolled by the monks morning and evening. These regular tollings comprise a series of 108 strokes. This number 108 represents: