He became a lay mendicant monk at a Buddhist training center.

At age 14 he left home to join a group of wandering 'homeless' mendicant monks.

Being a mendicant monk has advantages," he said. "

Both the mendicant monks and the parasitic military are a burden on a society that has never properly developed a professional middle class.

As they travelled they could beg, like the mendicant monks of olden times.

While walking, Thomas carries no money, and begs for food and shelter in the mendicant monk tradition.

There may also have been an element of mockery of the church, as mendicant monks also used such implements.

He was commissioned to travel round Japan and collect honkyoku, spiritual shakuhachi music pieces from his fellow mendicant monks.

After he was ordained, the 6-foot, 7-inch swami was given a beggar's bowl and traveled throughout India as a mendicant monk.

Was the simoniacal and corrupt Pope right in considering the mendicant monks preaching poverty the equivalent of bands of outcasts and robbers?

According to Buddha's guidelines for Vassa, mendicant monks shouldn't travel during the rainy season as they may unintentionally harm crops and/or insects during their journey.

Venerable Ajahn Sumedho is a bhikkhu (mendicant monk) of the Theravada tradition of Buddhism.

His social name was "Wenzhong" and his nickname "Zhiyin Toutuo" means "Mendicant monk at the temple hidden by tree branches".

Disguises as a komusō, a mendicant monk known for playing the shakuhachi, were also effective, as the large "basket" hats traditionally worn by them concealed the head completely.

Ja Lama told the Oirat remnants in Xinjiang: "I am a mendicant monk from the Russian Tsar's kingdom, but I am born of the great Mongols."

Bhikshuka Upanishad is a short Upanishad with only five verses with the first verse mentioning four types of mendicant monks as Kutichaka, Bahudaka, Hamsa and Paramahamsa.

This was once the most holy place of all, Lord Wizard," the cyclops said heavily, "for it stands in the place where Saint Iago did appear to Brother Chard, a simple mendicant monk.

Returning unharmed from the Crusades, the knight Henri de Müllenheim undertook the construction of a monastery for the Hermits of Saint William, an order of mendicant monks, in this marshy neighbourhood situated extra muros, that is, beyond the city walls.

The ascetic orders of Christianity also had direct connection with the cynics, as can be seen in the wandering mendicant monks of the early church who in outward appearance, and in many of their practices differed little from the cynics of an earlier age.

Other forms of religious life on Mount Athos fall outside these two major categories and include anchorites, hermits who live alone in secluded cells or in groups of two or three in remote houses with their own chapels, and gyrovagues - itinerant, mendicant monks.

The circular shapes represent alms bowls, one of the few possessions carried by mendicant monks, which are paradoxical symbols - of giving that is receiving, of emptiness that is fullness and by extension of death that is new life - within a Buddhist context.

In the course of his failed crusade, he had met up with some disciples of the Carmelite order, mendicant monks easily distinguishable by virtue of their striped cloaks - a homage, legend has it, to the scorched cloak the prophet Elijah threw from the chariot of fire that took him to heaven.