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- Dictionarymonastic/məˈnastɪk/
adjective
- 1. relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows, or the buildings in which they live: "a monastic order" Similar
noun
- 1. a monk or other follower of a monastic rule.
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1 day ago · Luther would later write works against the Catholic devotion to Virgin Mary, the intercession of and devotion to the saints, mandatory clerical celibacy, monasticism, the authority of the pope, the ecclesiastical law, censure and excommunication, the role of secular rulers in religious matters, the relationship between Christianity and the law, good works, and the sacraments.
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1 day ago · New monastic orders arose including the Jesuits. [505] Resembling a military company in its hierarchy, discipline, and obedience, their vow of loyalty to the Pope set them apart from other monastic orders, leading them to be called "the shock troops of the papacy". Jesuits soon became the Church's chief weapon against Protestantism. [505]
1 day ago · Mahayana sutras. The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture (sūtra) that are accepted as canonical and as buddhavacana ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism. They are largely preserved in Sanskrit manuscripts, and translations in the Tibetan Buddhist canon and Chinese Buddhist canon.
1 day ago · Pali. Pāli (/ ˈpɑːli /), also known as Pali-Magadhi, [2] is a Middle Indo-Aryan on the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka as well as the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.
1 day ago · Chinese Buddhism is a sinicized form of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which draws on the Chinese Buddhist Canon (大藏經, Dàzàngjīng, "Great Storage of Scriptures") [1] as well as numerous Chinese traditions. Chinese Buddhism focuses on studying Mahayana sutras and Mahāyāna treatises and draws its main doctrines from these sources.
1 day ago · Gilgul, Gilgul neshamot, or Gilgulei Ha Neshamot (Hebrew: גלגול הנשמות) is the concept of reincarnation in Kabbalistic Judaism, found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews. Gilgul means 'cycle' and neshamot is 'souls'. Kabbalistic reincarnation says that humans reincarnate only to humans unless YHWH / Ein Sof / God chooses.
1 day ago · 公衆衛生は、「疾病予防 の科学と芸術」、 社会 、 組織 (公的および私的)、 コミュニティ 、 個人 の組織的な努力と情報に基づいた選択を通じて、生命を延長し、 生活の質 を向上させることと定義されている [ 11 ]。. 「公衆」は、一握りの人々から村や ...
