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The Monk is an epithet for: Abraham the Monk, Christian monk who converted to Judaism about 614; Cosmas the Monk, 7th-century Sicilian monk; Epiphanius the Monk, 8th or 9th-century monk, priest, and author in Constantinople; Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), mercenary and pirate born near Boulogne
Dharmarakṣa, Yuezhi monk, the first known translator of the Lotus Sutra into Chinese; Jñānagupta (561–592), monk and translator from Gandhara, Pakistan; Kumārajīva (c. 401), Kuchan monk and one of the most important translators; Lokaksema, Kushan monk from Gandhara, first translator of Mahayana scriptures into Chinese, around 180 CE
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. 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 ...
The male religious are also sometimes called the Black Monks, especially in English speaking countries, after the colour of their habits, although some, like the Olivetans, wear white. [2] They were founded by Benedict of Nursia , a 6th-century Italian monk who laid the foundations of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation of his Rule.
It was founded with 12 monks and an abbot from L'Aumône Abbey, in the South of France. By 1187 there were 70 monks and 120 lay brothers in residence. [36] Tintern Abbey, founded in 1131. Thirteen Cistercian monasteries, all in remote locations, were founded in Wales between 1131 and 1226.
In the Battle of Uji in 1180, one of the more famous battles in which sōhei participated, the monks of Mii-dera, along with a force of Minamoto samurai, tried to defend the bridge over the Uji River, and the Byōdō-in, a temple behind it, from an attacking Taira force. The monks pulled up the planks of the bridge to impair the ability of the ...
He was one of the greatest teachers and writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English History". He served at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. Born on lands ...