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1. Monastic life was vigorous in the Syriac Orthodox Church and many scholars and poets were monks in these Monasteries.
2. Monastic life was governed by the rules of the Vinaya Sutra, one of the three canonical collections of scripture.
3. Monastic life is bound by ascetical practices expressed typically in the vows of celibacy, poverty, and obedience, called the evangelical counsels. (Web site)
4. Those pursuing a monastic life are usually called monks or brethren (brothers) if male, and nuns or sisters if female.

Secular Life

1. Conversion of Manners is a Benedictine vow that Roman Catholic monks take when they leave secular life and enter monastic life. (Web site)

Monastic Sangha

1. Monastic Life From the first, the most devoted followers of the Buddha were organized into the monastic sangha. (Web site)

Monastic Vows

1. The same year Ratchis abdicated, with his wife and daughter took the monastic vows before the pope, and all three entered the monastic life. (Web site)

Candidate

1. Although there are no formal vows made at this point, the candidate is normally required to affirm his commitment to persevere in the monastic life. (Web site)

Rule

1. It lays out the 227 rules of monastic life for bhiksus, along with an account of the occasion that led the Buddha to formulate the rule. (Web site)

Leaving

1. The purpose of the monastic life is union with God, the means is through leaving the world (i.e., the life of the passions). (Web site)

Important Centre

1. For 600 years the island was an important centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks.

Benedict

1. He then traces its spread westward and the explosion of monasticism that occurred shortly after Benedict wrote his Rule for monastic life.

People

1. Just a fraction of the people exposed enter into the monastic life or take it on as a layperson. (Web site)

Sole Purpose

1. In Christianity, St. Anthony the Great (251-356) is given credit as the first Christian to seek a monastic life for the sole purpose of pursuing God.

Practice

1. As the monastic life came to be organized by rule, the insistence on obedience remained the same, but its practice was legislated for. (Web site)

Constantinople

1. Court intrigues obliged her (446) to leave the imperial palace and retire to a suburb of Constantinople, where she led a monastic life. (Web site)

Church

1. Topics covered include cultural history, the monastic life, relations between Church and State, law and ritual, palaeography and textual transmission.
2. Monastic life in England came to an abrupt end when King Henry VIII broke from the Roman Catholic Church establishing the Church of England. (Web site)

Hegumen

1. When a candidate wishes to embrace the monastic life, he will enter the monastery of his choice as a guest and ask to be received by the Hegumen (Abbot).

Women

1. If they were given half the chance, many women would like to live the monastic life.

Rules

1. The first basket is the Discipline Basket (Vinaya Pitaka), which set out the rules and guidelines for living the monastic life of the sangha.

Vinaya

1. Vinaya The rules of discipline of monastic life. (Web site)

Meditation

1. A monk who is half-hearted in his meditation misses out on the rewards of both the lay life and the monastic life. (Web site)
2. In 1988, Bhante Gunaratana became President of the Bhavana Society in High View, West Virginia, a center to promote meditation and the monastic life. (Web site)

Asceticism

1. He gave himself most zealously to practices of asceticism, and learned to value the Rule of St. Benedict as the best foundation for the monastic life. (Web site)

Buddhism

1. The revival of Buddhism in Mongolia brought about a strong interest in monastic life, for women as well as men. (Web site)

Buddhist Practice

1. The perfection of Buddhist practice is achieved not merely through superficial changes, such as leading a monastic life or reciting sacred texts. (Web site)

Buddha

1. At the time of the Buddha, some young nuns left the household life to enter monastic life and immediately took bhik.su.nii precepts. (Web site)
2. Basically, it’s not acceptable either to women or to men to have a lack of freedom for women to pursue a monastic life as the Buddha laid it down.
3. Instead of leading a monastic life, Osel Hita Torres now sports baggy trousers and long hair, and is more likely to quote Jimi Hendrix than Buddha. (Web site)

Three Jewels

1. Buddhism consists of Devotion, Refuge in the Three Jewels, Buddhist ethics, Meditation and for some Monastic life. (Web site)

Years

1. Having lived many years near a monastery with a hundred Tibetan monks, she has valuable experience to share concerning the monastic life.
2. After years spent in robes, he was keenly aware of the problems of monastic life and because of this even senior bhikkhus respected and accepted his council. (Web site)

Ramakrishna

1. In preparation for monastic life, Ramakrishna ordered his monastic disciples to beg their food from door to door without distinction of caste. (Web site)

Part

1. Monastic life Most Theravada monks live as part of monastic communities. (Web site)
2. Ajahn Mun spent a year in "illumination" in the teak forest around the temple at this early part of his monastic life.

Moldavia

1. Wallachia and Moldavia became a center of monastic life, attracting hermits from all the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
2. In 1764 Prince Grigore III Ghica of Moldavia asked Paisius to revive the monastic life in his country.

Basil

1. Basil established guidelines for monastic life which focus on community life, liturgical prayer, and manual labor. (Web site)

Caesarea

1. Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church.
2. Adopting the teachings of St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea (Kayseri), the Christians began to lead a monastic life in the carved out rocks of Cappadocia. (Web site)

Monastics

1. However, since worship is a major part of the monastic life, there is a need for some monastics to be ordained.

Monks

1. St Benedict's model for the monastic life was the family, with the abbot as father and all the monks as brothers.
2. Dashing the high hopes of monks who treated him like a god, Torres is now studying films in Madrid instead of living the monastic life. (Web site)
3. Only thirty years old at the time, the monks refused his request saying, "You are only thirty years old and your monastic life is only five years. (Web site)

Nuns

1. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns (women).
2. These nuns would like to practice and share experiences with nuns of other religions and traditions, with discussions on issues of monastic life.

Monastic Life

1. In 747, when Carloman decided to enter monastic life at Rome, a step he had been considering for years, Pepin became sole ruler of the Franks. (Web site)
2. Hinayana Buddhism emphasizes the importance of Buddha as a historical figure, the virtues of monastic life, and the authority of the Tripitaka. (Web site)
3. In the Christian tradition, those pursuing a monastic life are usually called monks or brethren (brothers) if male, and nuns or sisters if female.

Categories

1. Age > People > Women > Nuns
2. Age > People > Men > Monks
3. Historical Figure
4. Carloman
5. Sole Ruler
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