monasticism
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The monastic life, system, or condition.
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As these varied styles of Buddhist monasticism are transmitted to Western cultures, still more new forms are being created.
As with the legendary visit with Basil, this visit is a theological bridge between the origins of monasticism and its spread throughout the church.
Benedict XVI, "Saint Benedict of Norcia" Homily given to a general audience at St Peter's Square on Wednesday, 9 April 2008 citation St. Benedict contributed more than anyone else to the rise of monasticism in the West.
Anglo-Saxon monasticism developed the unusual institution of the "double monastery", a house of monks and a house of nuns, living next to each other, sharing a church but never mixing, and living separate lives of celibacy.
He continued a process begun by his mother and brothers helping to establish foundations that brought reform to Scottish monasticism based on those at Cluny and he played a part in organising diocese on lines closer to those in the rest of Western Europe.
He is also credited with the construction of the Norbulingka 'Summer Palace' started by his predecessor in Lhasa and with ordaining some ten thousand monks in his efforts to foster monasticism.