1.   Another day we visited a few remote monasteries, and again met a surprise.

2.   After that, his reputation spread and people began traveling to the remote monastery to seek his absolution and guidance.

3.   Instruction in arcane Buddhist meditation techniques, some once confined to remote Tibetan monasteries, is now almost as easy to find as yoga or karate training.

4.   A London-based monitoring group reported Friday that monks staged anti-Chinese protests at a remote monastery in northern Tibet during the first two weeks of March.

5.   Chun spent more than a year in a remote Buddhist monastery before being allowed to return to his home in Seoul.

6.   Chinese troops raided a remote Tibetan monastery and arrested four monks suspected of writing pro-independence leaflets, a report said Saturday.

7.   He donated millions of dollars to the government and went into a self-imposed exile in a remote Buddhist monastery.

8.   Roh forced him to live in internal exile at a remote Buddhist monastery and donate millions of dollars to the government.

9.   Stranger still in the classical musical charts was a recording of Gregorian chant by the monks of the remote Spanish monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos.

10.   The austere surroundings of the schools and the deep piety and almost mystic nature of most teachers give madrassas an air similar to that of remote Christian monasteries.