Sentence examples for monastic community from inspiring English sources

The primary purpose of the monastic community, however, was religious.

A fully functioning Thai-style monastic community in Cheshire.

Also, monastic rules encourage hard labor for the benefit of the monastic community and others.

The original monastic community was founded by Colomba, an Irish monk, almost 1,500 years ago.

The Digambara monastic community denounced the codification, and the schism between the two communities became irrevocable.

Located on a Greek peninsula, it is home to the oldest surviving monastic community on Earth.

The monastic community, as a "field of merit" for lay donors, serves an intermediary function.

The mass arrests since September have spurred a new radicalism among some of Burma's monastic community.

In the 18th century the Ephrata Cloister was a German Protestant monastic community in the Pennsylvania hinterland.

Soon after returning to Cappadocia, Gregory joined the monastic community that Basil had founded at Annesi in Pontus.

Under Constantine V, the struggle against the icons became a struggle against their chief defenders, the monastic community.