Within that greenery is another courtyard where you may see monks and/or nuns meditating, studying, or simply relaxing.

For example the monk must pray or meditate and must do some work.

Atop the hill sit the ruins of a huge stupa and a monastery; you can still make out the individual cells where monks meditated.

Other friends form his previous years told him a monk should travel, meditate and study scriptures.

At one time, two thousand monks meditated in caves among the sandstone cliffs.

Its function was purely spiritual: to bring the monks to meditate.

The smells spread over to a nearby Buddhist monastery where monks were meditating.

Most monks meditate alone in their huts in the forest.

Senior monks meditate there overnight, contemplating impermanence.

As they had done for three thousand years, the monks still prayed, and meditated, and watched the dawn.