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51Jiva (nun) — Jva was a sister of a king of Kucha, and later a Buddhist nun.At a young age, Jva fell in love with Kumryana, a noble Indian who renounced his fortune to become a Buddhist monk and thus travelled to Kucha. Jva and Kumryana married and produced a… …
52Christian monasticism — Icon of Saint Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism. Christian monasticism is a practice which began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals, including those in the… …
53Outline of Buddhism — See also: Index of Buddhism related articles Flag of Buddhism …
54Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism — Part of a series on Eastern Christianity …
55Bhikkhu — A Bhikkhu (Pāli) or Bhiksu (Sanskrit) is a fully ordained male Buddhist monastic. Female monastics are called Bhikkhunis. Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis keep many precepts: they live by the vinaya s framework of monastic discipline, the basic rules of… …
56monasticism — /meuh nas teuh siz euhm/, n. the monastic system, condition, or mode of life. [1785 95; MONASTIC + ISM] * * * Institutionalized religious movement whose members are bound by vows to an ascetic life of prayer, meditation, or good works. Members of …
57Zen — For other uses, see Zen (disambiguation). Zen Chinese: Traditional: 禪 Simplified: 禅 Pinyin: Chán …
58Bodhidharma — Bodhidharma, woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, 1887 …
59Christian Law of Succession in India — Christians in India have had different laws on succession. The British Indian Government enacted the Indian Succession Act of 1865 on the recommendations of the 3rd Law Commission. This Act was intended to be applied to different communities in… …
60Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …
