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	Common Aspects of Monastic Life
		Monastic complexes vary in layout, but always include a cloister, a roughly square area of ground known as the garth with covered walkways along each of its sides, each walkway separated from the garth by a low wall with arcades.
		The church of a monastic house is generally similar to a house of worship served by secular clergy; large and wealthy abbeys may have equally large and splendidly decorated churches, while smaller priories tend to have structures similar to parish churches.
		Monastic communities generally vest the religious in copes and albs during great feasts and feasts in copes, and merely in albs during feasts in albs.
	www.aedificium.org /MonasticLife/GeneralAspects.html (21845 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monasticism
		Monastic asceticism then means the removal of obstacles to loving God, and what these obstacles are is clear from the nature of love itself.
		The monastic idea of chastity is a life like that of the angels.
		Under St. Pachomius manual labour was organized as an essential part of the monastic life; and since it is a principle of the monks as distinguished from the mendicants, that the body shall be self-supporting, external work of one sort or another has been an inevitable part of the life ever since.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10459a.htm (5130 words)

	Monastic Spirituality presented in Spiritual section
		Monastic spirituality can also be called a way of life - either lived in a monastery or not - that requires a certain discipline to dispose oneself to meet the living God.
		Monastic spirituality is seen by oblates as providing a better focus for their Christian lives and encouraging attentive listening to God in the silence of one’s heart, especially through the ancient monastic discipline called lectio divina, meaning a prayerful reading, meditating and praying with Sacred Scripture (the Bible).
		Monastic spirituality is not a running from (obligations, tragedies, brokenness), but running toward - seeking a meaning to the mystery of life in the presence of the living God.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/monastic_spirituality (775 words)

	Monastic Scriptoria and the Transmission of Texts. By Richard Oliver OSB
		Monastic scribes contributed beyond measure to the preservation and dissemination of the Bible.
		Strictly monastic scriptoria that flourished in the ninth through twelfth centuries became less significant with the "gentrification" and clericalization of Benedictine cloisters succeeded by the rise of cities, the mendicant orders and the earliest universities.
		The role of the Carolingian scribe in moving Western Civilization from an oral to a literate state is hotly debated, and the proper role of the modern electronic scribe in the transmission of texts is questioned.
	employees.csbsju.edu /roliver/scrip/scriptoria.html (500 words)

	Dragonshards -- Monastic Orders
		Most of the religions presented in the Eberron Campaign Setting maintain monastic communities, where the faithful live ascetic lives of contemplation and honor the gods with their prayers and works.
		Many of the religious texts of Eberron are produced in such monasteries, and relics of the faithful are hidden away in monastic vaults.
		Monastic skill training focuses on Hide, Move Silently, and Tumble; Bluff, Disguise, and Gather Information are also considered to be important talents.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20041213a (2026 words)

	THE CUSTODIANS OF MONASTIC DISCIPLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the case of the uvajjhaya, besides the knowledge of the scriptures, monastic etiquette and practice of self-control, the person had to be such as had at least three years' standing (tivasapariyaya).
		Monastic practices as also a sort of isolationism, which are not good for the homogeneity of any church.
		The details so far given, though not exhaustive, are sufficient to give an idea about the custodians of monastic conduct, the qualifications required for various positions in the church hierarchy, the rules and regulations which were enjoined upon them and the various groups which formed the monk-order as a whole.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/images/27/THE_CUSTODIANS_OF_MONASTIC.htm (4028 words)

	Palyul: About Monastic Vows
		It is through intensive study and practice of these teachings that monastics as well as yogis and lay people have themselves become great teachers and realized beings, inspirational to others who would seek the liberation that they have achieved.
		If a monastic breaks his or her root vows it causes a very negative karma which is extremely difficult to purify in this life.
		It is discouraging for monastics when they must spend the majority of their time at a job where they must engage in worldly activities and possibly even hide their ordination.
	www.palyul.org /eng_about_monasticvows.htm (1359 words)

	Monastic Spirituality
		The inspiration for monastic spirituality is the example of individuals who have followed such a path or written about it since the latter part of the third century.
		Hospitality is an important aspect of monastic spirituality, as it gives a concrete shape to the meeting with God in silence and prayer.
		Monastic spirituality flows from a belief in a God who comes to those who are disposed to listening, who will perservere in seeking God even when it seems pointless or boring.
	www.christdesert.org /noframes/scholar/monastic_spirituality.html (692 words)

	Monastic handworks
		The recently made Byzantine icons in the monastic iconographic ateliers in the Strumica diocese are a new testimony to the regeneration of the living patristic tradition in the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
		Monastics sometimes use prayer ropes with 300, 500, or 1000 knots.
		Monastics knit them in their cells, while repeatedly saying the Jesus prayer.
	www.mpc.org.mk /English/Bookshop/handworks.asp (643 words)

	Monastic Art and Architecture
		Western monastic art and architecture, as widespread and various as Christianity, takes its special character from the aspirations of members of monastic religious communities who have turned their thoughts away from the world and dedicated themselves to living under a regula ("rule").
		Central to all monastic life were the devotions in the church and the liturgical requirements of the Hours and the Mass.
		In fact, the greatest surviving examples of monastic art and architecture are directly related to the fabric of the church building and to the liturgical rites in it.
	www.efn.org /~russelln/art.html (2430 words)

	Historical Christian: On the Attraction of Monastic Spirituality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Monastic detachment from sex is complete, so that's a difference, but no different than a non-monk who is unmarried and lives in the world--his continence, his form of chastity is the same as a monk or nuns.
		Monastic lay life is distinguished from non-monastic lay life by structure: lifelong vows of forms of discipline that differ in degree, not in kind, from the sorts of regular prayer life one needs as a husband or wife or single person or employee or employer if one is to succeed in growing as a Christian.
		The monastic is simply the one who realizes he needs more structure, more discipline, needs to place himself under obedience to a superior precisely because he needs the crutch of the rule.
	aimeemilburn.typepad.com /my_weblog/2006/07/on_the_attracti.html (3499 words)

	Georgetown University Library: "Monastic Bindings" of Three Centuries: Home/Introduction
		The fact that many of them shared a "monastic" provenance, combined with that whitish color, led to the adoption of the term "monastic." But while there is nothing inherently "monastic" about these books, it is also likely that some percentage of these bindings were indeed produced by the binderies in religious houses.
		The best-known of the "monastic bindings" are those whose sides are adorned by central pictorial, or at least figural or armorial, panels.
		One final note: "monastic bindings" are not now common in the trade, nor have they been for some time.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/monastic_05 (942 words)

	monastic community of Camaldoli - Italy *** monastic liturgy
		For the Camaldolese monastic community which belongs to the Order of St. Benedict, the bell is rung four times a day for communal prayer-the so-called "Divine Office" in the Rule of St. Benedict (nothing should be preferred to the Divine Office: ch.
		In a place called 'choir' (whether inside or outside the main church), the monastic community "does choir" by singing psalms to praise and thank God to whom the remainder of the day is offerred, spent with brothers and sisters in work and service.
		The familiarity of the monastic community with choral prayer is one of the motives for which guests and pilgrims seek to spend time in a hermitage or monastery.
	www.camaldoli.it /web_en/liturgia/liturgia00.htm (529 words)

	What is Monasticism?
		The path of the monastic involves renouncing family life and adopting vows of celibacy in order to be able to give more energy and focus directly to spiritual practices.
		In the tradition of the Ramakrishna Order, the purpose of monastic life is to work out one's own liberation and to train oneself to do good to the world, along the lines laid down by Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda.
		We maintain convents for female monastics in Hollywood and Santa Barbara, and monasteries for male monastics in Trabuco Canyon (Orange County), Hollywood, South Pasadena, and San Diego.
	www.vedanta.org /wiv/monastic/wim.html (994 words)

	Self-Realization Fellowship Monastic Order
		Paramahansa Yogananda established this monastic order in the West in the early 1930s with the arrival of Sri Daya Mata and other dedicated disciples who wished to give their lives completely to God.
		But what all monastics have in common is an ardent desire to live for God alone.
		The general requirements for SRF monastic life are: One should be single, in sound physical and mental health, free of family and other obligations, have studied the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for at least one year, and between the ages of 18 and 35.
	www.yogananda-srf.org /aboutsrf/srf_monastic.html (376 words)

	Monastic Servant of Auppenser
		Before the coup that destroyed Jhaamdath's psiocracy, monastic servants were the priestly wayfarers of the empire, wanderers who went beyond their empire's borders to spread the message of their deity, Auppenser.
		Monastic servants were expected to be of sound mind and body.
		Monastic servants were frequently imprisoned, tortured and publicly executed as traitors for speaking their mind.
	www.candlekeep.com /library/articles/leof_msoa.htm (1178 words)

	Daily Life at Gampo Abbey- Monastic Vows
		The applications for ordination are presented by the candidate to the Monastic Council.
		The temporary vows are identical to the five vows taken by all residents.
		However, a monastic shaves his or her head, wears robes, performs rituals and attends monastic training.
	www.gampoabbey.org /life/monastic.htm (300 words)

	Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Monastic life does not imply separation from the secular world, but it encourages the monk or sister to be a transforming presence to all whom they meet.
		Benedictine monastic life is rooted in the three-fold monastic promise of obedience, fidelity to the monastic way of life and stability in the community.
		Obedience requires that the monastic person listen carefully to the Scriptures, the teachings of the Church and the lived tradition of the religious community as experienced in the signs of the times.
	www.msb.net /Monastic_life.htm (217 words)

	THE BACKGROUND TO MONASTIC JURISPRUDENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Pined and the Oha-Nijjuttis, which are sometime grouped with the cheyasuttas, give abundant information regarding daily monastic life and the transgressions connected with the requisites of a monk, whereas the rules governing the formation of a unit of monks called the Gauche and the working of it are incorporated in the Gacchayara Painnaya.
		Before entering into the details Of monastic jurisprudence, it may be worthwhile to- summarize the main characteristics of the nature of evidence for the study of the subject.
		It may not be an exaggeration to say that those who framed the rules of monastic conduct were keen observers of the working of human mind in relation to the society at large.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/images/27/THE_BACKGROUND_TO_MONASTIC.htm (4783 words)

	Ex Oriente Lux: John Cassian on the Monastic Life
		A degree of practicality is found in Cassian’s monastic writings which, though not as readily apparent and fundamental as the advice given in the Apothegmata, nevertheless represents an integral part of his spirituality.
		For Cassian, the monastic life of Egypt was a tool; and however great a tool may be, it is not the tool itself which is ultimately to be set on high, but the end for which it designed to be an aid.
		It is worth noting that not all of Eastern spirituality or its monastic tradition were held in the highest esteem by Cassian.
	www.monachos.net /monasticism/cassian_east_west.shtml (1492 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Western Monasticism
		This monastery was intended to be a model for all the religious houses of the empire, and the famous Assembly of 817 passed a series of resolutions which touched upon the whole range of the monastic life.
		In the "Carta Caritatis" it is used to exclude all monastic observance not exactly on the lines of the "new monastery", i.e., Citeaux, and subject to it.
		It must be recognized however that these active institutions attracted a vast number of vocations and to that extent tended to check the increase and development of the monastic order strictly so called, even while their fervour and success spurred the older institutes to a renewal of zeal in their special observances.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10472a.htm (4271 words)

	Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monastics, male or female, live lives away from the world, in order to pray for the world.
		Even today the population of the Holy Mountain numbers in the tens of thousands of monastics (men only) and cannot be visited except by men with special permission granted by both the Greek government and the government of the Holy Mountain itself.
		Established upon at least some of the customary monastic principles, they have attracted many who seek to live in relationship with other, or who seek to live in a intentionally-focused lifestyle, such as a focus upon simplicity or pacifism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastery (2376 words)

	Monastic Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There is a possibility to become a monastic living, learning, and practicing either in Plum Village in France or in Deer Park Monastery or Maple Forest Monastery in the USA under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
		It is understood that monks and nuns in Thich Nhat Hanh's tradition will be celibate for all their life and will be living, practicing and teaching with the sangha and not to live, practice and teach as individuals.
		To become monastic is to give Buddhism a chance to be really rooted in the West.
	www.plumvillage.org /monastics/SteppingIntoFreedom.htm (244 words)

	How Monastic life began
		The monastic traditions of Egypt began to be known in the West beginning in the late fourth century, as literature about the lives of the desert fathers was disseminated, and individual monks traveled to and settled in Europe.
		As a young man he lived as a hermit near the town of Subiaco, and his reputation for holiness was such that the monks of a nearby monastery asked him to become their abbot.
		The age of Luther and the Reformation caused a precipitous decline in monastic vocations, and it wasn't until the reform movements of the nineteenth century that monastic life began its revival.
	members.tripod.com /~faithandpraise/id7.html (934 words)

	The 8th Western Buddhist Monastic Conference
		The Western Buddhist Monastic Conference is a forum for ordained members of the Buddhist Monastic Sangha of all traditions to gather with one another, share in insights and experiences, learn from one another, and together look into the issues that are uniquely and fundamentally important to our lives as Western Buddhadharma Sangha.
		Our monastic conferences originally started for Western monastics to gather together and spend time learning about each other’s work and practices in the West as well providing an opportunity for us to be rejuvenated in a monastic setting.
		In this same spirit, this conference is open to monastics from all Buddhist traditions and cultures, but is particularly for monastics born or raised in the West, who follow traditional vows, which include observing celibacy.
	www.urbandharma.org /images/8thMonasticConference/index.html (436 words)

	Annual Summer Monastic Experience, June 16 to July 13, Saint John's Abbey. Benedictine Monks - O.S.B. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a Monastic Experience participant, you and others in the program will form a community in a campus dormitory near the monastery.
		of Saint Benedict, monastic spirituality, the psalms, Eucharist, the Liturgy of the Hours, private prayer, lectio divina, and the history of Benedictines in general and of Saint John's in particular.
		The Monastic Experience culminates with the celebration of the Feast of Saint Benedict on July 11 when you and the community celebrate the profession of final vows of our newer members and the profession jubilees of our senior monks.
	www.saintjohnsabbey.org /vocations/mep.html (603 words)

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