monastic

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For the monastics at Hsi Lai Temple, meditation isn’t a singular activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Born a world apart, they’re among a group of respected female monastics or “bhikkhunis,” lay persons and academics who have challenged longstanding patriarchal traditions.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

During the third century, in a time far quieter than our own, the Desert Mothers and Fathers preached silence; in the sixth century, Benedict of Nursia included it in his Rule for monastics.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019

The Patriarch’s website also published an appeal from an association of Catholic clerics and monastics in the region that put things more bluntly.

From Economist • May 18, 2018

The disrepute into which such tendencies brought the monastics in the tenth and eleventh centuries gave rise to numerous attempts to revive the primitive discipline, the most notable of which was the so-called "Cluniac movement."

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin