Shide lived as a lay monk, and worked most of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple.

The same year, he moved into Kodai-ji temple in Kyoto as a lay monk.

Koremori cuts off his topknot, becomes a lay monk, and separates himself from both his families for the final time.

The monastery is now maintained by 100 odd lay monks (locally known as the gomchen).

The restoration work has been done by craftsmen supported by gomchens, who are lay monks (not necessarily celibate).

In 1422, he became a lay monk.

The partition between the choir of the Fathers and that of the lay monks was removed, and the sanctuary was gutted.

Secondly there were the lay monks which made the abbey rich by trading in the local area and abroad.

He became a lay mendicant monk at a Buddhist training center.

The vast hall of the lay monks' refectory, still more or less intact, gives some idea of the size of the establishment.