Some experts think that a few of the votive stupas are actually tombs of revered monks.

Gavriil then began throwing out pilgrims, harassing revered monks for giving counsel or hearing confession, and he forbade group prayers.

The décor is almost institutional: besides the essentials there's also a gaudy Chinese shrine and photographs of revered monks.

Nearby, there is "Sarika Cave" where the revered monk "Luang Pu Man" resided on his religious missions from 1917-1920.

Another group displayed what it said were bribes, including three statues of a revered monk, two clocks and 16 plastic buckets.

The revered monk who was once governor of Harima has come from Akashi.

In 676, a revered monk named Zhiyao planted a pipal in the temple.

Records from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) show that tea offerings were made in Buddhist temples to the spirits of revered monks.

It was built by the king for a revered monk visiting from Sukhothai for the rains retreat.

The result was a unique development in its time: a monastery created ex nihilo under patronage, rather than one that developed organically around the person of a revered monk.