Word for Word: Celibate

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: celibate.

Drepung Monastery in Tibet

Tibet has a history of Buddhist monasteries for the celibate but also for married monastics. The latter were coed, with married couples living…