Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold convert West, thanks efforts monastics trained Thailand. This article analyzes missionary project “monasticize” Western lay through history Birken Monastery British Columbia, Canada, founded 1994. To establish...

Toward the end of the 1770s, a poet writing at the request of a powerful Buddhist monk on the island we now know as Sri Lanka juxtaposed four images of Lankan Buddhist life. The first, with which he described the time before his patron’s monastic order came into being, was an image of darkness, hypocrisy, and delusion. It described a time in which, according to the poet, Buddhist monks betrayed...

The monastic tradition has its roots in the New Testament practices of withdrawing into desert, following a celibate lifestyle and disciplines fasting. After empire became Christian 4th century these ascetic evolved communities. While took various forms, they developed shared literature, gained recognised place church, while taking different ways life settings church. Western Eastern traditions...

marriage holds a special position in different cultures and religions. despite differences in the limits and conditions of marriage, religions have many similarities in regard to the issue of marriage. this research paper is a comparative study of marriage in islam, christianity, and judaism. the findings reveal that all three traditions recognize marriage to have a sacred nature, and they all ...