Monks
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
monks · attendant monk · monastics · monk · such men
in the texts
Letters
Renunciant ascetics who have given up money and bodily comfort for the poor and prayer.
Concerning Monks, to a Tax-Assessor
I think that some rule has already prevailed with your Honour concerning monks, such that we have no need to ask any special favour on their behalf, but that it is enough for them if they enjoy the common humanity shown to all.
You have cut asunder the resolve of monks;
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Buddhist monastics who appear both as protagonists in the treatise's case-law anecdotes about intention and fault, and as the addressed audience of a cited canonical teaching.
A monk urged on his own aged father with "Go quickly!
[restored] Every body, O monks, consists of the five aggregates;
An attendant monk, [thinking it auspicious,] pressed his lips upon an Arhat (and the like) who was utterly faint;