This is a close up of the Buddhist monastery.

He wanted to live a long life at the monastery.

For example, in this ancient manuscript which I uncovered in a crumbled monastery ..

And, of course, I'm not suggesting that anybody here go into a monastery.

And on the far left there is a 400 year old Buddhist monastery.

No, I'm usually pretty busy... at the monastery, praying with the other monks.

I just took walks along the monastery road and sent postcards to loved ones.

And then, like everyone else in our generation, we went to live in a Himalayan monastery.

In 1982, Thay established a monastery and retreat center in France where thousands of followers still flock every year.

And so anything from restaurant menus to monastery records to ships' logs to see what the oceans looked like.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave

And yet, two hours later you find yourself standing on the roof of this monastery, smeared with mud, blood and sweat.

And I lived in a Himalayan monastery, and I studied with a very wise teacher, who kicked me out of the monastery one day and told me that it was my destiny it felt like Yoda it is your destiny to go to work for WHO and to help eradicate smallpox, at a time when there was no smallpox program.

And you look up at the sky through a hole in the clouds you see the monastery at the top of the Muhraka that's where you're supposed to climb now and you say, There's no way that I could possibly get there.