This traditional system followed religious rule and was meant to foster Buddhist understanding.

"Every community has to have religious rules," he said.

Problem was, which set of religious rules came closest to what God really thought?

Amish religious rules require children to leave school after eighth grade and then learn a trade.

Could it be that the flight that they must have seen went against one of their religious rules?

We demand a state where there is not religious rule.

Beliefs can be discovered through religious rules; these distinguish religion from personal activities.

Some sort of religious rule said they had to wear it.

So has pressure to make the society as a whole conform to orthodox religious rules.

For many people sexual abstinence is just a religious rule that makes no sense.

He said little, observing the monastic rule of speaking only when necessary.

It became by the 9th century the standard monastic rule in Western Europe.

He even drew up the monastic rule the new congregation would follow.

It was he who first perceived the economic importance of the right kind of monastic rule and organization.

It has both men and women living under the same monastic rule.

In other old monastic rules the term is used in the same generic sense.

In the monastic rules prior to the 10th century certain variations are found.

The various governments here respect monastic rules and refuse to interfere with them.

Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules for monks and nuns.

During the 14th century the canons and nuns stopped following most of the monastic rules.