Nu tu hay nu tu si la nhung nguoi phu nu tu nguyen roi bo cuoc song vat chat, xa lanh khoi tran the, su đoi đe song mot cuoc song khep kin, chuyen tam cho viec tu hanh, cau nguyen, chiem nghiem cuoc đoi the thai nhan gian o tu vien, tu vien, thien vien hoac cac đia điem ton giao khac. Nu tu co the la mot nha tu kho hanh, an si hoac la nhung nguoi đuoc gia đinh gui vao hoc tap tai cac tu vien. Thuat ngu "nu tu" trong tieng Anh đuoc su dung nhieu đe chi nhung Kito huu (bao gom ca Cong giao Roma, Chinh Thong giao, Anh giao, Canh giao...), trong truong hop nay, mot nu tu la mot nguoi phu nu tin theo ton giao đang song mot cuoc song chiem niem tu vien, thuc hien viec cau nguyen hay thien đinh hang ngay. Co nhieu thuat ngu đe chi ve nu tu si nhu trong Phat giao thi co Su ba, Su co, Su thai, Ni co, Ni su, Ni truong hay Tu nu, Ti-khau-ni. Trong Kito giao thi co ten goi la xo, so hoac  ma-so (sœur hoac ma sœur tu  tieng Phap), ba/di phuoc, ba mu.


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Tham khao Thu muc Arai, Paula Kane Robinson. Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (1999)
Bechert, Heinz and Richard Francis Gombrich.  The World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture (1991)
Conroy, Helen. Forgotten women, in Convents. New York: Agora Publishing Co., [194-]. 121 p., ill. N.B.: This is a polemical work, from a socialist perspective; the religious name of the author, formerly a Roman Catholic nun, had been Sr. Mary Ethel.
McGuinness Margaret M. Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America (New York University Press, 2013) 266 pages;
McNamara, Jo Ann Kay. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia (1998)excerpt and text search
Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 (1922) online
Roberts, Rebecca. "Le Catholicisme au feminin: Thirty Years of Women's History," Historical Reflections (2013) 39#1 pp. 82–100, on France, especially research on Catholic nuns by Claude Langlois
Shank, Lillian Thomas, and John A. Nichols, eds. Medieval Religious Women: Peaceweavers (1987)


Lien ket ngoai Cac blog boi nhung sœur Cong giao
Vocation-Network.org Luu tru ngay 4 thang 5 nam 2011 tai Wayback Machine thong tin ve cac cong đoan Cong giao va đoi song cua sœur, pho te, hay linh muc.
VocationMatch.com helps those discerning a Catholic religious vocation sort through options and find the order or vocation that may be right for them.
DigitalVocationGuide.org ban ky thuat so cua VISION, huong dan nhan ra on goi Cong giao hang nam.
Monastic Matrix: A Scholarly Resource for the Study of Women's Religious Communities 400-1600 C.E. Luu tru ngay 8 thang 6 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine
Full Text + Illustrations, The Hermits and Anchorites of England by Rotha Mary Clay.
Nuns of Medieval England, Full Text + Illustrations.
Religious Orders including Female Religious. Full Text + Illustrations.
Medieval Shrines of British Saints, including sainted women religious. Full Text + Illustrations.
Nuns article from The Catholic EncyclopediaThe Catholic Encyclopedia
Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns Verbi Sponsa of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
A Biography of a Vajrayana Buddhist Nun
Martin Luther's letter To Several Nuns, ngay 6 thang 8 nam 1524. Luu tru ngay 7 thang 12 nam 2009 tai Wayback Machine (Two reasons life at the convent and vows may be forsaken)
Sakyadhita — The International Association of Buddhist Women
The Ursulines Sisters Luu tru ngay 2 thang 9 nam 2011 tai Wayback Machine
The Dominican Monastery of Saint Jude
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Monastery in Buffalo NY (A Dominican contemplative monastery with Latin chant)