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	Palyul: About Monastic Vows
		The vows which monks and nuns take are called the "Personal Liberation" vows which are a commitment taken by the purely-renounced mind to abstain from harming others.
		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)

	Religious vows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious vows are the public vows taken by members of religious communities of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
		The vows are meant to express the commitment to the service of God through the religious life.
		Eastern Rite Catholic clergy are divided into two groups: "monastics" (who do not necessarily live in a monastery as part of their ministry, but who do take a commitment to celibacy) and non-monastics (who may be married and normally function as parish priests and deacons).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastic_vows (446 words)

	Bhikkhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bhikkhu has taken a vow to enter the Sangha (Buddhist monastic community) and is expected to obey rules of conduct (typically around 253 for a male) as set out in the Vinaya, although there are considerable local variations in the interpretations of these rules.
		In Buddhism, monkhood is part of the system of "vows of individual liberation." These vows are taken by monks and nuns form the ordinary sangha, in order to develop personal ethical discipline.
		The yogis (monks or lay) observe another set of vows, the tantric vows (together with the bodhisattva vows); therefore, a yogi/yogini may also dress in a special way, so that they are sometimes called the 'white sangha' (due to their often white or red/white clothes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhikkhu (1161 words)

	Book IV Chapter 13
		Beyond all controversy, we ought not to vow anything which will hinder us in fulfilling our vocation; as if the father of a family were to vow to leave his wife and children and undertake other burdens; or one who is fit for a public office should, when elected to it, vow to live private.
		For of the fact that monastic colleges were then a kind of seminaries of the ecclesiastical order, both those whom we lately named are very competent witnesses, (they were all brought up in monasteries, and thence called to the episcopal office,) as well as several other great and excellent men of their age.
		In fine, they did not vow on attaining adolescence, or in the bloom of life, and so afterwards learn, by too late experience, over what a precipice they had plunged themselves, but after they were thought to have surmounted all danger, they took a vow not less safe than holy.
	www.reformed.org /books/institutes/books/book4/bk4ch13.html (7970 words)

	Monastic Vows
		Vows are not a statement of where we are at with the Lord, but rather a profession of faith as to where the Spirit is taking us.
		The Vow of Service: “But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter” (Romans 7:6).
		Too often the monastic life or life of a disciple is seen as a “loss” of personal freedom, honor, and possessions.
	www.theruined.com /monastic_vows.htm (1241 words)

	Daily Life at Gampo Abbey- Monastic Vows
		The temporary vows are identical to the five vows taken by all residents.
		The vows are taken within a wider context of Mahayana teaching and are explained further.
		If someone wants to continue to reside at the Abbey as a monastic, after a minimum of one year the pre-novice vows (Parma Rabjung) may be taken.
	www.gampoabbey.org /life/monastic.htm (308 words)

	People at Sera: Monks
		Vows are forms of restraint -- formal rules that govern behavior -- from the most serious (like killing) to the most minor (like spitting).
		The monks' vows were meant not only as a way of preparing individuals for mental training, they were also meant to create well-polished gentlemen: upright and noble individuals who would bring honor to the community.
		Part of the goal of the monastic discipline, therefore, was to create a respectable and dignified community that was worthy of the reverence and financial support of the laity.
	www.thdl.org /xml/showEssay.php?xml=/essays/sera/people-monk.xml&l=d1e331 (1421 words)

	Monastic Studies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the heart of monastic theology is the conviction that personal and communal prayer is a primary source of the theological endeavor.
		Great monastic figures who have been instrumental in shaping the tradition of monastic theology and who have contributed to the wider intellectual life of the Church will be studied.
		Monastic life declined in the course eighteenth century and suffered numerous and violent attacks as Enlightenment thought became more powerful.
	benedictine.stvincent.edu /seminary/programs/monasticstudies.html (647 words)

	The Defense of the Augsburg Confession -- Monastic Vows
		Therefore the monks falsely boast that in the observance of a monastic life the commandments are fulfilled, and more is done than what is commanded [that their good works and several hundred-weights of superfluous, superabundant holiness remain in store for them].
		For it is apparent that prudent men, offended by these immoderate praises of monastic life, since they did not venture to remove entirely from it the praise of perfection, have added the correction that it is a state in which to acquire perfection.
		From all these considerations it is apparent that there are very many reasons which teach that monastic vows such as have hitherto been made are not vows; and for this reason a sphere of life full of hypocrisy and false opinions can be safely abandoned.
	www.bookofconcord.org /augsburgdefense/24_vows.html (5363 words)

	Abtei St. Hildegard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benedicta Wallace OSB took Solemn Monastic Vows, which were received by our Mother Abbess Clementia Killewald OSB, and received the Consecration of Virgins through the hands of Abbot Clemens Schmeing OSB, Abbey of St. Joseph, Gerleve, in the presence of the whole community and numerous guests.
		After the vows are promised and the consecration received, the newly professed receives from the hands of the abbess and abbot consecrated insignia which represent symbolically and strengthen her in the duty which she now realizes.
		She receives the monastic robe as a symbol for her foremost duty which is the specific charisma of the Benedictine Order; to offer her gift of praise and thanksgiving in the choral prayer of the Church with and for the world.
	www.abtei-st-hildegard.de /english/monastic/profess.htm (975 words)

	Book IV Chapter 13
		Beyond all controversy, we ought not to vow anything which will hinder us in fulfilling our vocation; as if the father of a family were to vow to leave his wife and children and undertake other burdens; or one who is fit for a public office should, when elected to it, vow to live private.
		For of the fact that monastic colleges were then a kind of seminaries of the ecclesiastical order, both those whom we lately named are very competent witnesses, (they were all brought up in monasteries, and thence called to the episcopal office,) as well as several other great and excellent men of their age.
		In fine, they did not vow on attaining adolescence, or in the bloom of life, and so afterwards learn, by too late experience, over what a precipice they had plunged themselves, but after they were thought to have surmounted all danger, they took a vow not less safe than holy.
	www.spurgeon.org /~phil/calvin/bk4ch13.html (7964 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)

	6 Refuge Commitments and Bodhisattva Vows
		Expelling monastics, however, is not a downfall if they have broken one of their four major vows: not to kill, especially another human being; not to steal, particularly something belonging to the monastic community; not to lie, specifically about spiritual attainments; and to maintain complete celibacy.
		Although this vow refers to proclaiming false realizations specifically of voidness, it is clear that we need to avoid the same also when teaching bodhichitta or other points of Dharma.
		The first is that vows are an attitude we adopt toward life to restrain ourselves from certain modes of negative conduct.
	www.berzinarchives.com /web/en/archives/e-books/published_books/kalachakra_initiation/pt3/kalachakra_initiation_06.html (6475 words)

	Manichaean Orthodox Church
		A Bodhisattva vow is a commitment to serve other beings in the role of savior, forever.
		In the Tibetan tradition the bodhisattva or bodhicitta vows comprise eighteen root and forty-six secondary vows.
		In the Nazorean tradition the bodhisattva or bodhicitta vows comprise two groups of five and seven clusters of vows associated with the five trees and seven amens of the Tresury of Light.
	essenes.net /bodhivows.html (498 words)

	The Monastic Life (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though we notice that some of those who love to parade in monastic garb do not hesitate at times to exchange this garb for the most fashionable of street clothes and jewelry to be worn in all kinds of non-monastic settings.
		It may be that some monastics dress up in their habits in order to impress others, and then sport the dress of stylish laymen in various non-monastic settings.
		Orthodox monastic life involves a system which contemporary psychologists call a "feed-back loop." By attention to externals, we affect internals; and by the restored internal state, external attributes are affected.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /phronema/monastic.aspx (1963 words)

	Benedictine Monks - St. Benedict's Abbey - The life and worship of the Monks of Benet Lake, Wisconsin, is shaped by the ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During this initial year of formation both you and the monastic community seek to discern if you are called to live as a monk at Benet Lake.
		The monastic life may include a vocation to the priesthood with its primary focus on the needs of the monks and retreatants who come to St. Benedict's.
		Single Catholic men who want to live the monastic life with its vows of total dedication to God are invited to contact the vocation director to set up a visit to our Abbey.
	www.benetlake.org /vocations.asp (1337 words)

	Practice Council
		She received novice monk's vows in October 2001 and Transmission as a practice advisor during the March 2002 sesshin.
		She began training in the monastic post of Shuso on May 22nd, 2003 and received ordination as a full monastic on October 10th, 2003.
		He received novice monks vows in October 2002 and was appointed to the training post of tenzo-anja in March of 2002.
	www.wwzc.org /council2.htm (661 words)

	Level of Vows
		If the novice’s application for temporary vows is approved, he professes first vows on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and becomes a junior monk.
		A brother vows to fulfill all that lawful superiors command in accordance with the Rule and Constitution, following the example of Christ who was obedient even to death.
		Too often the monastic life of a disciple is seen as a loss of personal freedom, honor, and possessions.
	members.tripod.com /~faithandpraise/id5.html (635 words)

	Monastic Life in the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
		In the monastic life, acts coun-tenanced and proscribed in the world are to be avoided, the desires of the flesh are to be disciplined; all wanton impulses are to be checked, everything that cannot be brought into harmony with the true Christian faith is to be avoided.
		In the pre-chritian religions, there was no lack of practices resembling Christian asceticism and monastic life, such as fasting, prayer, and exhausting of the body through hard physical labour to discipline bodily desires and to check wanton impulses in an effort to attain enlightenment of the spirit.
		Moreover, the sum of his vows and promises constitutes a covenant between God and the monk which binds him for his entire life, and the breach of which places him in danger of eternal damnation.
	www.gwdg.de /~grabo/library/monastic.html (5780 words)

	Monks of Kauai's Hindu Monastery
		Self-sufficiency is a prime principle for Hindu monastics, and thus each monk is called upon to help with the daily chores of the monastery, whether in the kitchen, the gardens, the temple or the offices.
		He is the senior counselor to the monastic community and overseer of our global relationships with other Hindu organizations and interfaith religious forums.
		Sannyasin Saravananathaswami is the leader of the Ekadanta Kulam, the monastic group responsible for nurture and outreach to members of Saiva Siddhanta Church and students of Himalayan Academy.
	www.himalayanacademy.com /ssc/hawaii/monastic_life (2386 words)

	Confutatio Pontificia (1530): Monastic Vows
		Moreover, that vows are not contrary to the ordinance of God as been declared with reference to the second article of the alleged abuses.
		For the assumption is repelled that the vow concerns a matter that is impossible.
		They are also poor defenders of their cause when they admit that the violation of a vow is irreprehensible, and it must be declared that by law such marriages are censured and should be dissolved, C. Ut. Continentiae, xxvii.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/wittenberg/concord/web/conf-27.html (956 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Sep 1994
		As a rule in most orders, if a candidate enters monastic training before age twenty-five and meets other qualifications, he may, generally after a minimum of twelve years of preparation and training, take the sannyasin's lifetime vows, called holy orders of sannyasa.
		The second vow is obedience-a pledge to follow the traditional ways of the sannyasa dharma and the specific directions of his satguru.
		The third vow is purity-a pledge to remain pure in thought, word and deed, to be continent throughout life, to protect the mind from all lower instincts: deceit, hatred, fear, jealousy, anger, pride, lust, covetousness and so forth.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1994/9/1994-9-09.shtml (1184 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monasticism
		monastic life took definite shape in the fourth century, these forerunners were naturally looked up to as the first exponents of monachismm.
		Monastic PrayerFrom the very outset it has been regarded as the monk's first duty to keep up the official prayer of the Church.
		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
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10459a.htm (5095 words)

	Abtei St. Hildegard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With the vow of stability ("stabilitas") we commit ourselves to remain in the once chosen place and to root our life totally in God.
		With the vow of conversion of manners ("conversatio morum") we promise to live a life following the Gospel.
		With the vow of obedience ("oboedientia"), which the Benedictine takes, we enter knowingly and voluntarily into a dependency on other people, believing that we will encounter God's will in this way.
	www.abtei-st-hildegard.de /english/monastic/vows.htm (253 words)

	The Monastic Vows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		No matter how strict the monastic vows we examined, after acquainting ourselves with their essence we cannot fail to see the error of those laymen who, according to the words of Bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov, separate themselves unduly from monastics in matters or morality and spirituality.
		After all, laymen give vows at their baptism which are no less strict than the monastic vows except that they are of a more general character.
		And among our God-wise Fathers and teachers of the Church there is the opinion that the monastic tonsure is not only a rite but a sacrament, namely, the sacrament of a second baptism in which the vow s of renunciation of Satan and the commitment to Christ are repeated and deepened.
	www.roca.org /oa/74/74g.htm (875 words)

	Calvin's Institutes Book 4, Chapter 13
		For he who vows what is not within his means, or is at variance with his calling, is rash, while he who condemns the beneficence of God in making him lord of all things is ungrateful.
		It cannot be doubted that this vow, which is sanctioned by Scripture, nay, is exacted from all the children of God, is holy and salutary.
		But they still insist and attempt to show that this vow was used in the days of the apostles, because Paul says that widows who marry after having once undertaken a public office, "cast off their first faith," (1Ti 5: 12).
	www.vor.org /rbdisk/calvin/ci_html/4_13.htm (8251 words)

	Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4 - CHAPTER 13.
		For he who vows what is not within his means, or is at variance with his calling, is rash, while he who contemns the beneficence of God in making him lord ofí all things, is ungrateful.
		But as monastic vows are held in great veneration, because they seem to be approved by the public judgment of the Church, I will say a few words concerning them.
		They cannot allege that they make this vow trusting entirely to the grace of God; for, seeing he declares this to be a special gift not given to all (Mt. 19:11), no man has a right to assume that the gift will be his.
	www.theologywebsite.com /etext/calvin/institutes/bookiv15.htm (8149 words)

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