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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 December 2024. Member of a monastic religious order For other uses, see Monk (disambiguation) and Monks (disambiguation). Portrait depicting a Carthusian monk in the Roman Catholic Church (1446) Buddhist monks collecting alms A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin ...
Monk is an English surname. Notable people with the surname "Monk" include. Monk (Berkshire cricketer), English professional cricketer in the 1790s;
Monks is the surname of: Clifford Monks (1912-1974), English cricketer; Constance Monks (1911-1989), British politician and teacher; George Monks (cricketer) (born 1929), English former cricketer; George Howard Monks (1853-1933), American board game designer and surgeon; Helen Monks, English actress and writer
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārūn; Arabic: مَارُون; Latin: Maron; Ancient Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. [5]
The word monk originated from the Greek μοναχός (monachos, 'monk'), itself from μόνος (monos) meaning 'alone'. [1] [2] Christian monks did not live in monasteries at first; rather, they began by living alone as solitaries, as the word monos might suggest. As more people took on the lives of monks, living alone in the wilderness ...
In China, ordained monks and nuns automatically revert to using the surname "Shì" (釋) as in Shijiamouni (釋迦牟尼), the Chinese transliteration of Shakyamuni Buddha. Vietnam also follows this tradition for its monks and nuns by changing their surname to "Thích" as in Thích Ca Mâu Ni, the Sino-Vietnamese name for Shakyamuni. Likewise ...
A Buddhist monk is a bhikkhu in Pali, Sanskrit bhikṣu, while a nun is a bhikkhuni, Sanskrit bhikṣuṇī. These words literally mean "beggar" or "one who lives by alms ", [ 2 ] : 115 [ 24 ] and it was traditional in early Buddhism for the Sangha to go on "alms round" for food, walking or standing quietly in populated areas with alms bowls ...
The surname Monaghan is an anglicization of the Irish surname O'Manacháin / oʊ ˈ m ɒ n ə h æ n /. The Irish translation for this name is descendant of Manacháin, which ultimately translates to "Monk". Other variations include Monahan and Monachan.