Examples of using Tonsure in English and their translations into French
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He also gave the tonsure to Marmontel.
The Archbishop of Ottawa gives the tonsure to five scholastics.
And that's what I needed to see, the tonsure ceremony.
He received the tonsure from Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
I could fashion me a tonsure in which is secreted a midget.
he took the tonsure, and died on February 8, 1817.
He subsequently took the tonsure, and died three months later at age 69.
Prince Akira took the tonsure and entered the priesthood under the title Saihan Hoshinnō.
She was renamed Lady Seikan'in no miya after she took the tonsure as a widow.
as can be seen from his tonsure.
Gevartius received the tonsure in the chapel of the bishop of Antwerp on 8 February 1665.
After his tonsure he was given the Buddhist name"Kugyō" replacing his childhood name Yoshinari.
receiving his tonsure in 1792.
Shōmu became the first emperor who renounced his throne to take the tonsure as a Buddhist monk.
Shomu took the tonsure, thus becoming the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.
Ton'a took a tonsure at Enryaku-ji Temple,
Go-Shirakawa accepted tonsure as a Buddhist priest;
Other distinguishing characteristics were its calculation of the date of Easter and the style of the tonsure haircut that clerics wore.
first assumed by Emperor Shōmu and was later used by many other emperors who"took the tonsure", signifying a decision to become a Buddhist monk.
Why do you tonsure your hair?