| The shrine also attracts Indo-Muslim mystics called faqir, religious mendicants who observe lives of poverty, chastity, meditation and prayer. |
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| However important the preached word was to the mendicants and the late medieval princes of the pulpit, it was still ancillary to the sacraments. |
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| Such tunics were deliberately patched and made ragged to indicate their wearers' status as religious mendicants. |
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| An ancient tale tells of four mendicants who had chosen to abandon wealth, possessions and ambition in hope of benefiting the world. |
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| The mendicants called such a life of poverty and itinerant preaching the vita apostolica. |
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| They gave up, it is said, their desire for sons, for wealth, and for the worlds, and led the life of religious mendicants. |
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| Its topics included not only monks but canons, mendicants, and other groups. |
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| Others attribute authorship to the mendicants who provided spiritual counsel to women in the Liege diocese. |
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| Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America. |
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| Colonies also offered places in which to dump the increasing numbers of mendicants and criminals which thronged the cities of Europe. |
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| The paduka or toe-knob sandals were usually worn by ascetics and mendicants. |
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| If they were poor to begin with, they would scarcely be better off as mendicants wholly dependent on the charity of poor householders. |
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| You had the mendicants, sycophants, lick-spittles, toadies, fawners all with their tin cups, looking for a handout of taxpayers' funds. |
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| As mendicants, they were accustomed to travel and not interested in personal gain. |
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| The form is often associated with wandering mendicants, who sing at festivals and other auspicious occasions. |
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| Eighty mendicants, we are told, sat down each day at her table, and blessed her name. |
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| We meet unassuming mendicants who may turn out to be rishis in disguise, pilgrims who may be exiled kings, or noblemen undertaking acts of penance. |
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| It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob. |
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| The only hangers on are a handful of mendicants who are stretched out on the cool stone floor of the mandapam or seated on the benches inside the park. |
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| The highest ideal in Jainism is the wandering, possessionless, and passionless ascetic, which is why jinas are always depicted as mendicants or yogis. |
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| Verastique's study is, at best, a broad text-book like survey of pre-Hispanic religion and culture and of the Christianization programs of mendicants and diocesan clergy. |
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| Half of the Drukpas are begging mendicants. |
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| Remember, all mendicants in India wear orange robes as a principle. |
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| Romanticism, poetry, music are lived in different spots of the city, where shops, cafes, street musicians and mendicants coexist in harmony and embrace the magic of the Prague of the present. |
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| From some friendly servant, who was well rewarded and who immediately left the kingdom, Gautama obtained old and ragged clothes such as the mendicants wore. |
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| A true path of study and research transforms this presumption into a desire and self-stripping: it is a strong existential experience of poverty, which makes us mendicants. |
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