What is a name for the building where monks live and work?
The Foreign Monks The Foreign Monks "The Foreign Monks" () is a short story by Pu Songling first published in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in 1740. It concerns two foreign monks and their amazing feats. Pu Songling narrates a story told to him by a monk named Ti Kong (): Two monks claiming to be from the West arrive in Qingzhou, where they are received personally by two servants of the local Prefect and hosted at a nearby monastery. However, a high-ranking monk named Lingpei () gives the foreign monk poor treatment, despite the veneration Lingpei's servants have for them. Given
What a piece of work is a man What a piece of work is a man "What a piece of work is man!" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose: Hamlet is saying that although humans may appear to think and act "nobly"