The article is devoted to the study of documentary evidence researchers and travelers about Drepung Gomang monastery. descriptions monastery are considered from earliest pilgrimages Buryat, Kalmyk lamas, laity 18th century up scientific expeditions beginning 20th century. Pilgrims’ aim visiting Tibet was venerate holy relics get religious education, researcher-travelers wanted ex...

Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold convert West, thanks efforts monastics trained Thailand. This article analyzes missionary project “monasticize” Western lay through history Birken Monastery British Columbia, Canada, founded 1994. To establish...

During an archaeological excavation at a mediaeval monastery (Flor da Rosa, Crato, Portugal), a skeleton of a adult woman was found with two calcifications in the thoracic cage. The location and the macroscopic analysis of the calcifications allowed them to be assigned as pleural plaques. Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy enabled to establish that it originated with an i...

The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within relatively isolated environs Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive mobility toward by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, sample 37 individuals monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O residency during dental enamel formation. data generated bring into questio...

Since its abandonment 185 years ago, the XII century Santa Maria de Bonaval Monastery located in Guadalajara (Spain) has suffered significant deterioration: first the roof was lost, followed by partial collapse of the walls, moisture infiltration and extensive loss of stone surfaces due to salt weathering. This case study is a clear example of the incompatibility of some building materials: in ...

The monastery of Attel, Upper Bavaria, which was founded in AD 1030, harbours a series of crypt burials from the time period between AD 1700 and 1750. Due to a restoration of the church, 16 crypts had to be removed and were subjected to an extensive anthropological-paleopathological and isotope analysis. The 16 crypts contained 19 burials in open wooden coffins. All bodies were covered by an ex...

The Helmholtz Alliance Preclinical Comprehensive Cancer Center (PCCC; www.helmholtz-pccc.de) hosted the "1st International Kloster Seeon Meeting on Mouse Models of Human Cancer" in the Seeon monastery (Germany) from March 8 to 11, 2014. The meeting focused on the development and application of novel mouse models in tumor research and high-throughput technologies to overcome one of the most crit...