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Christian monasticism is a religious way of life of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship

evolved into cenobitic monasticism, in which monks and nuns resided year-round in monasteries. In India, Buddhist monasteries gradually developed into

discipline. Monasticism in Christianity, which provides the origins of the words "monk" and "monastery", comprises several diverse forms of religious living

Enclosed religious orders are religious orders whose members strictly separate themselves from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered

related to Religious orders at Wikimedia Commons List of Contemplative Men's Monasteries in the United States List of Contemplative Women's Monasteries in the

Anglican religious orders are communities of men or women (or in some cases mixed communities of men and women) in the Anglican Communion who live under

highest form of monasticism, yet the monasteries he founded were all organized monastic communities. About 410 he established two monasteries near Marseille

of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation of his Rule. Benedict's sister Scholastica, possibly his twin, also became religious from an early age

life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent

coenobitic) monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life. Often in the West the community belongs to a religious order, and the life