- Zoroastrianism, or
plays a
marginal role, as in
modern Judaism. Many
monastics live in abbeys, convents, monasteries, or
priories to
separate themselves...
-
Christian monastics, some
schools of
Buddhist monastics are not
required to live a life of
obedience to a superior. However, it is
expected that
monastics will...
-
complex of
buildings comprising the
domestic quarters and
workplaces of
monastics,
monks or nuns,
whether living in
communities or
alone (hermits). A monastery...
- and
female monastics ("nun", bhikkhunī,
Sanskrit bhikṣuṇī) are
members of the
Sangha (Buddhist community). The
lives of all
Buddhist monastics are governed...
- and
communities Anglican information on
monasticism American Benedictine monastics Community of
Jesus The Lay
Monastic –
Benedictine lay monasticism...
-
Monastic granges were
outlying landholdings held by
monasteries independent of the
manorial system. The
first granges were
owned by the
Cistercians and...
- live and as a
devotional space.
Cells are
often part of
larger cenobitic monastic communities such as Catholic, Lutheran,
Anglican and
Orthodox Christian...
-
Buddhist tradition,
female monastics are
known as Bhikkhuni, and take
several additional vows
compared to male
monastics (bhikkhus). Nuns are most common...
- or
become a solitary; most
monastics remain in the
cenobium the
whole of
their lives. In general,
Eastern Orthodox monastics have
little or no contact...
-
Monastic schools (Latin:
Scholae monasticae) were,
along with
cathedral schools, the most
important institutions of
higher learning in the
Latin West from...
