1, You should look out for short-term monkhood programs too, to taste the monastic life to see if you are ready for it.

2, "If his holiness chooses to be born in Tawang, we would be so happy, " he says in his red-carpeted monastic office, as half a dozen skinny lads file in to be inducted into monkhood.

3, The abbot was forty-six years old and from central Burma, the heartland of the sangha, or monkhood.

4, It is considered to be a sin to just give up being monkhood without valid reasons.

5, The three numbers refer to various attributes of the Buddha, his teachings and the monkhood.

6, Unlike men at other Dhammakaya mass ordinations, who proceed to a period of monkhood, most women will soon return to their normal life of families and work.

7, In Thailand, young men usually spend a period of time in the Buddhist Monkhood.