On top of a hill above a monastery stands this incredible Buddha.

这座令人难以置信的佛像矗立一座寺院上方的山顶上。

At the centre of this spiritual power base, was the Chief Abbot, King Chodakpo's brother.

这座宗教权力堡垒的中心正是寺院的住持，国王的胞弟。

The Tang Monk slept peacefully as the rest of the monastery burned down.

唐僧屋子里安然地睡着，而寺院里的其他地方都烧光。

Members of the hilltop Druk Amitabha Monastery are part of the 1,000-year-old Drukpa religious organization.

山顶上的德鲁克寺院的成员是拥有1000年历史的德鲁巴宗教组织的一部分。

Poor mistress, left alone in that dark church!

可怜独自留那样昏暗的寺院里！

A hundred-year-old Buddhist monastery in Malaysia's northwestern region of Perak faces demolition after the cement company that owns the land won, on appeal, the right to force the monks out.

马来西亚西北部霹雳州一所拥有百年历史的佛教寺院面临拆迁，此前拥有该寺院土地的水泥上中将僧侣赶出去的权利。

" Certainly. We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji, but of the pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay" .

" 自然是孟买，不过，不是庇拉吉庙，而是孟买玛勒巴山的寺院。"

The most popular theory is that this was the first temple of humanity dedicated to long-forgotten Gods.

最流行的说法是，这是第一座人类专门为被遗忘很久的神而建造的寺院。

It was the White Horse Temple that first brought the meaning of temple to the word 'si'.

正是白马寺使“寺”第一次有“寺院”的含义。

" Our monastery is ruined" ! cried another.

" 我们的寺院着火！" 另一个和尚说。

The Drukpa lineage includes the only female order in the male-led Buddhist monastery system.

德鲁巴寺院是男性主导的佛教寺院体系中唯一的女性教团。

I wandered around the porches and porticos of the monasteries and the shrine-chambers of the temples.

我漫游寺院的门廊和走廊，参观寺庙的神殿和圣龛。

During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the flat, well–cultivated country of the Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas.

夜间，火车穿越高止山脉，过纳西克，第二天是10月21号，火车驶过堪土地区一片比较平坦的土地。那精耕过的田野上，零星地点缀着一些小镇。这些小镇的上空，见不到欧式礼拜堂的钟楼，却看到一些寺院的尖塔。

But at its peak, Tholing housed more than 900 monks and was the largest of Guge's monasteries both in size and influence a power base akin to the Vatican.

但它的极盛时期，托林寺内有九百多位僧侣，从规模和影响力两方面来说都是古格王朝最大的寺院，是相当于梵谛冈的权力基础。

Interestingly, the monarchs of the Gupta Empire that founded the Buddhist monastic university were devout Hindus, but sympathetic and accepting towards Buddhism and the growing Buddhist intellectual fervour and philosophical writings of the time.

有趣的是，建立佛教寺院大学的古普塔帝国的君主尽管是虔诚的印度教徒，却对佛教和当时不断增长的佛教智识热情和哲学写作持同情和接纳的态度。

It was the first Buddhist temple in China, and to this day, remains one of the most important temples in all of China.

白马寺是中国历史上第一座佛教寺院，直到今天，它仍然是中国最重要的寺院之一。

He was telling the bodhisattva everything that had happened at the monastery.

他把寺院里发生的一切都告观音菩萨。

Passepartout, however, thinking no harm, went in like a simple tourist, and was soon lost in admiration of the splendid Brahmin ornamentation which everywhere met his eyes, when of a sudden he found himself sprawling on the sacred flagging.

路路通一点也没想到会闯下大祸，就象平平常常的游客一样走进玛勒巴山的寺院里，他正欣赏那金碧辉煌光彩夺目的印度教的装饰，突然被人推倒神殿里的石板地上。原来是三个僧侣怒气冲冲，扑过来，扒下他的鞋袜，给他一顿老拳还夹杂着一阵臭骂。

After slipping through a corridor with lofty, red-brick walls, I arrived at an inner courtyard of a monastery.

穿过一条高耸的红砖墙壁的走廊后，我来到一个寺院的内院。

Many Buddhist families in Nepal send at least one son to join the local monastery.

尼泊尔的许多佛教家庭至少派一名儿子加入当地的寺院。