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Flagellation and similar rigors introduced into other Italian monasteries by the Irish monk Columbanus were soon modified by the gentler Benedictine rule.
Another Vanity Fair article led Tuesday's Daily Telegraph of London--an interview with Rupert Murdoch in which the media mogul referred to the Dalai Lama as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes."
In the early sixth century, a monk from India named Da Mo arrived at Shaolin, where he founded Chan Buddhism.
Caves painstakingly cut into the mountainside contain colorful painted carvings, all the work of a single-minded Daoist monk of the 18th century and his followers.
Unfortunately, he didn’t leave us his name, so his face is hidden deep inside the cowl of his monk’s-style robe; he is referred to, simply, as Anonymous.