MetaFilter posts tagged with monastery

Poison pen

WPW — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:18:21 -0800

Historical fact follows historical fiction. Lick your fingers to turn the page. Possible historical fact, anyway: "Medieval bones from six different Danish cemeteries reveal that monks who wrote Biblical texts and other religious materials may have been exposed to toxic mercury, which was used to formulate just one of their ink colors: red."

The Cascadian Order of the Strict Conformance

brownpau — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:07:38 -0800

CSS Trappist Monastery. Like the Zen Garden, but without any images (other than the "chosen twelve").

Monasteries of Mustang

homunculus — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:24:21 -0800

A restoration project has been underway since 1998 to restore the 15th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery wall paintings of Lo Monthang, a city in the kingdom of Mustang in northwest Nepal. The results have been very impressive. Mustang is also home to some amazing cave temples.

Where have all the nice books gone?

humuhumu — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:54:15 -0800

A monstery mystery. A tale of confused monks, hoarded books, secret passageways, hidden cupboards and, ummm, CCTV.