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All Saints Abbey (Kloster Allerheiligen) (dissolved), at Schaffhausen: Benedictine monks (1049/50-1529); Au Abbey (Kloster Au or Kloster in der Au), at Trachslau near Einsiedeln (Schwyz): initially 4 independent women's communities first documented in 1359; became a single community in Vordere Au c.1530; became Benedictine nuns in 1617 under Einsiedeln Abbey; raised to the status of abbey in ...
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The Taizé Community (French: Communauté de Taizé) is an ecumenical Christian monastic community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France.It is composed of about one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries around the world.
Dzogchen Monastery was founded by Pema Rigdzin, 1st Dzogchen Rinpoche (1625–1697) in 1684. [1] It became especially renowned for its Sri Singha Shedra, which was established by Gyelsé Zhenpen Tayé (Wylie: rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas) during the time of Mingyur Namkhé Dorje, 4th Dzogchen Rinpoche shortly after the monastery was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1842.
[citation needed] Each monk lives in a small cottage, called a "cell," which is divided from its neighbors by a high wall and includes a small garden. Labors include a guest ministry, retreats, a bakery, a book store, cooking, and writing.
Born as Chang Baokang on January 22, 1931, in Nantong, Jiangsu near Shanghai in mainland China, he became a monk at the age of 13.During the Chinese Civil War, he went to Taiwan in 1949 by enlisting in a unit of the Nationalist Army. [3]
Rumtek Monastery (Tibetan: རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: rum theg dgon pa), also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok.
Some of the establishments have had alternative names over the course of time; such alternatives in name or spelling have been given. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks ( Knights Templars ...