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Pali Chanting Of The Karaniya Metta Sutta | babelhut.com

By tummai 431 days ago from http://babelhut.com

Pali Chanting Of The Karaniya Metta Sutta. Video, Pali text and translation.

These days Pali isnâ€™t often spoken. But it is chanted quite a bit by Theravada Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. I imagine most readers

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Aging the Beers of Chimay | The Brew Basement

By tjason1 407 days ago from http://www.brewbasement.com

Religious institutions in the United States have never been very tolerant towards alcohol use. Now compare that to Belgium, where not only do they tolerate its use, they even brew their own beer! This article is a brief introduction to the beers of Chimay. Brewed by monks, the Chimay Blue (or Grande Reserve) is a classic beer that only gets b

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Dead Sexy by Tate Hallaway

By FantasyGirl 326 days ago from http://bestfantasystories.com

Garnet Lacey is having a bad day. To start things out, she just sold a book to a college age zombie, the local detective is passing around a photo of her because he thinks she's linked to that assassination of several Vatican monks, and her old vampire boyfriend has come to town. On top of that, the homicidal goddess that li

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Detectives Beyond Borders Reviews The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

By chemrat 320 days ago from http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com

An excellent book review of "The Skull Mantra", award-winning novel by Eliot Pattison about a Chinese detective in Tibet. This detective starts out in prison, and is a prisoner throughout the story, a complex murder mystery involving religious artifacts, suppressed monks and monasteries, foreign investors, and Chinese/Tibeta

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Funny Zen story of two monks and a lovely girl.

By Alchemy 268 days ago from http://enlightenyourday.com

Two monks were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was falling. Coming around the bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection. “Come on, girl,” said the first monk. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud. The second monk did not speak again until tha