Talk:Monastery

message: Currently, there is a redirection of the term friary to this page which, in its first paragraph, provides a link back to friary. I would recommend to remove this redirection and to create a page for friaries on their own as this term is exclusively used for monasteries of mendicant orders. --AFBorchert 12:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: de-linkified friary here and noted it refers to mendicant orders of friars. -- Akb4 11:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection from Friary 

message: Is a monastery a structure, or is it an institution?  I'm asking because of a question raised elsewhere. I guess it may just be a basic ambiguity.  (20040302)
:There are many monastics within the Eastern Orthodox Church that feel the proper structure of monastic life is a teacher/pupil or father/son relationship. Every monk/nun has a spiritual guide within the monastery. Therefore – when a monastery gets too big, when there are too many pupils and not enough teachers then the monastery become too much an institution (the quality of the monastic life suffers) and so the monastery should be split up into smaller groups. The best monks and the most intense learning occurs in Sketes (Small monasteries of 6 or 8  monks).
--Phiddipus (talk) 06:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure or Institution? 

message: There is a redirect from "Monastic rule" to this article; but the subject is not properly addressed here. Suggest to restore the original article or have a new sub-heading here. Enough can be said about it to fill a few lines. 01:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monastic/Religious rule 

message: ok, I grabbed lots of clues from the abbey article and created the terms section. also alphabetized buddhism/christianity/hinduism, redid the intro paragraphs a bit. still needs more content, of course. I'm sure there are more religions with monasteries, more terms for buddhist and hindu monasteries, etc. -- Akb4 11:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  a little cleanup 

message: thank you for stating :
"By the time Christian cenobites emerged in the 4th century AD, Buddhist monasteries had been in existence for seven hundred years or more, and had spread deep into the Persian empire. Thurman says "It is quite likely that (Buddhist monasticism) influenced West Asia, North Africa, and Europe through lending its institutional style to Manicheism and Aramaic and Egyptian Christianity.""
I think a research into origins of christianity will reveal that buddhism is father of christianity.
Jesus & his parents fled to egypt to escape king Herod's persecution. Jesus might have learnt buddhist principles of celibacy,tolerance and kindness from there. It is also said that John the baptist belonged to Essene sect and so his disciple Jesus. Essene sect of jews sprang up from buddhism.
BuddhaIsTheLord
:There is no evidence for this. And the Christian monasticism was developed independently through quite a number of stages. (If Buddhist monasticism would have been known, this might have been different.) However, there exists quite some interesting contacts between Buddhist and Christian monks nowadays. In 1996, for example, was a five-day meeting held by Buddhist and Christian monks and nuns at the Abbey of Gethsemani (Trappist). See: Donald W. Mitchell, James Wiseman O.S.B. (Editors): The Gethsemani Encounter. Continuum, New York, . The very personal views of a Trappist monk during his journeys in Asia (including an encounter with the Dalai Lama) are to be found here: Thomas Merton: The Asian Journal, . --AFBorchert 20:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buddhism is father to many faiths 

message: Many Romanian monasteries were added recently to the list. It seems to me that Romania is now overrepresented with so many examples. The reader can't find out which ones are really significant which are only locally important. I suggest to remove the surplus examples and only keep the four most important ones. There is a List of religious buildings in Romania which should be expanded or - even better - split into a monasteries and a cathedrals list. What dou you think? Zello 22:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Romanian monasteries

message: ok...so are there any modern day monestaries???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snick's Friend (talk • contribs) 21:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure what you are asking. There are within the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches many monasteries in exsistance, some of them ancient, some of them recently founded. Often when a monastery grows too big (like a bee hive), a number of monks are allowed to move away and start a new monastery. Sometimes (within the Orthodox Church) a single monk moves out with the intensions of becoming a hermit, but instead, a new community of monks developes around him and a new monastery is born. This happens quite frequently, even today.--Phiddipus (talk) 05:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What???

message: The oldest monastery, at least in Europe, seems to be St. Athanasius Monastery in the Bulgarian village of Zlatna Livada . It was reportedly established by St. Athanasius of Alexandria himself in AD 344, while he was returning from the Council of Sardica. --Vladko (talk) 15:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest monastery?

message: There is a claim in the article that the term 'nunnery' is offensive.  This view is unsourced, and in my personal experience, untrue.  e.g. Chi Lin Nunnery  Is this the experience of others, I wonder. Presumably the author of the claim had something in mind when writing.--jrl 08:31, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've looked, and can't find any reference, either now or earlier in September, to the word Nunnery" being offensive. Where did it go?   Amandajm (talk) 08:31, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Nunnery

message: Monasteries were during the centuries a room, where many homosexual people lived. In the article should that be mentioned.178.11.186.140 (talk) 12:05, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that this these are very controversial comments and would need citations from reliable sources. Daniel the Monk (talk) 17:54, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monastery: a room for homosexual people 

message: Perhaps it would be interesting to add a line or two about the Taoist Monasteries existing in China? 85.226.138.39 (talk) 09:24, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly!  Would you like to create a new section and add the relevant info?  Amandajm (talk) 06:53, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taoist Monasteries 

message: In Terry Jones' "Medieval Lives", he busts a lot of the myths about monasteries in medieval Europe: apparently there was very little hardship and a lot of gluttony, simony, wealth and whoring. The section in this article probably needs to be verified against the scholarly literature and changed. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 01:42, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terry Jones's book on medieval life 

message: One of the instances of differences that is a clear sign of that what that is.
Does Islam have monasteries? The answer to that is a definite NO.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.39.108.47 (talk) 12:18, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam 

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message: This entry lacks references and/or citations at various critical points. OnSpeech (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: — Assignment last updated by CalebNJenkins (talk) 03:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: For this assignment, I have added a section on "Monasteries in Literature." I have also tried to find citeable sources for information in the article that needed citation -@CalebNJenkins CalebNJenkins (talk) 17:17, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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