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Example sentences for: abbot

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As Ottoman forces made their way toward this last refuge, the Abbot ordered that a shot be fired into the explosive.
Thirty years later Kukai, the revered founder of esoteric Shingon Buddhism, was appointed head abbot.
It was built in 1634 by the abbot of Kofukuji and is the oldest of its kind in the country.
To the south is the residence of the Abbot — by tradition an imperial prince — with a particularly fine garden in the style of the Edo period.
The abbot and several monks were shot in reprisal before the war’s end.