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The next step, after one has been a monk for at least three years, is risshin (立身) and hossen-shiki (Dharma combat ceremony), while acting as a shuso (首座), headmonk, during a retreat. Risshin is "To raise one's body into a standing position": It means to gain physical stability. Confidence in oneself and one's role as a monk.
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Buddhist monasticism is one of the earliest surviving forms of organized monasticism and one of the fundamental institutions of Buddhism.Monks and nuns, called bhikkhu (Pali, Skt. bhikshu) and bhikkhuni (Skt. bhikshuni), are responsible for the preservation and dissemination of the Buddha's teaching and the guidance of Buddhist lay people.
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A monk who belongs to a monastery but frequently travels for various religious duties may also be called a "Gua xi or a Zhuo xi (Chinese: 掛錫 or a 卓錫; pinyin: Guà xī or a Zhuō xī), indicating the laying down of his staff. 'Planting a staff' similarly refers to a monk who has taken up a long-term residence.
Ajahn Sumedho (born Robert Karr Jackman on July 27, 1934) is an American Buddhist monk.He was ordained in 1967, and was instrumental in establishing Wat Pa Nanachat in Thailand and the Cittaviveka and Amaravati monasteries in England.
Up until the time of Benedict, several attempts had been made by various synods at suppressing and disciplining monks who refused to settle in a cloister.With the establishment of the Rule of St. Benedict in the 8th century, the cenobitic and eremitic forms of monasticism became the accepted form of monasticism within the Christian Church, and the wandering monk phenomenon faded into obscurity.