Dictionary of World Monasticism

Editor/Author Olderr, Steven
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: McFarland

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8309-6
Category: Religion & Theology
Book Status: Available
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A reference with historical and biographical focus -- fills the gap, with a worldwide scope covering not only Christianity, but all faiths that have monastic traditions, including but not limited to Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism.

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  • Preface
  • The Dictionary
  • A
  • A.A.
  • abba
  • abbacy
  • abbas laicus
  • abbas miles
  • abbatia nullius dioecesis
  • abbatial
  • abbatocomes
  • Abbaye
  • abbe; abbé
  • abbess; mother superior; reverend mother; magistra; khenmo (Tibetan); upadhyayani (Tibetan)
  • abbey
  • abbey lubber
  • abbey nullius
  • abbey town; nun town; temple town
  • abbeystead
  • abbot; fangzhang (Chinese); zhuchi (Chinese); khenpo (Tibetan); chuji (Korean)
  • abbot general
  • abbot nullius
  • abbot nullius dioeceseos
  • Abbot of Russia
  • abbot president
  • abbot primate
  • Abelard, Peter (1079–1142)
  • Abhishiktananda
  • Abrikosova, Anna Ivanovna; Sienskaya, Ekaterina (1882–1936)
  • absconce
  • acarya; precept master
  • accedie
  • accidie
  • accusations
  • acedia; accidie; accedie; akedia (Greek)
  • acharya
  • Acoemetae
  • Acoemeti; Acoemetae; Akoimetoi
  • Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries
  • Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries
  • Act of Supremacy, 1534
  • active community
  • active/contemplative community
  • ad succurrendum
  • adelphaton
  • administrator
  • advocate; advocatus ecclesiae
  • advocatus ecclesiae
  • Aelred of Rievaulx, St. (ca. 1109–1167)
  • affirmation
  • agapetae
  • agapetai
  • Agrypnia
  • Agwin of Clysma; Mar Agwin; Saint Eugenios (d. 363)
  • A.H.C.
  • ahimsa
  • Aidan of Lindisfarne, St. (d. 651)
  • ajahn
  • ajirogasa
  • akedia
  • Akhara
  • Akoimetoi
  • akrodha
  • Albert Avogadro
  • Albert of Cologne
  • Albert the Great, St. (1193?–1280); Albert of Cologne; Albertus Magnus
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Alcuin of York (ca. 735–804)
  • Aleppians
  • alien priory
  • almoner; elemosinarius
  • almonry; domus elemonaria
  • almshouse; bedehouse; beadhouse
  • ama
  • amaniko
  • ambulatory
  • amma
  • Ammon, St.
  • Ammonas
  • Ammonius the Hermit
  • Amoun
  • ampelikos
  • Amun, St.; Ammon; Ammonas; Ammonias the Hermit; Amoun (fl. 4th century ce)
  • an; hoan; soan
  • anagarika; anagārika
  • analavos
  • Ananda Marga monasticism
  • anchorage
  • anchoress
  • anchoret
  • anchorhold; anchorage
  • anchorite; anchoret; anchoress (female); eremite; westensetla (Anglo-Saxon)
  • anchoritic; anchoretic; eremitic; eremitical
  • anchoritism; anchoretish
  • ancilla
  • Ancrene Riwle
  • Ancrene Wisse; Ancrene Riwle; Guide for Anchoresses; Rule for a Recluse
  • angelica vestis
  • Angelines
  • Anglican monasticism
  • ango; seichū
  • angya
  • angyaso
  • anja
  • anju
  • Anselm of Aosta
  • Anselm of Bec
  • Anselm of Canterbury, St. (ca. 1033–1109); Anselm of Aosta; Anselm of Bec
  • antaravsaka
  • antarvasa; antarvāsa; antaravāsaka
  • anteri
  • Anthony of Egypt
  • Anthony of the Desert
  • Anthony of Thebes
  • Anthony the Abbot
  • Anthony the Anchorite
  • Anthony the Great, St. (ca. 251–356); Antony the Great; Anthony of Egypt; Anthony the Abbot; Anthony of the Desert; Anthony the Anchorite; Anthony of Thebes
  • antiphonary, antiphoner
  • Antonian Order of St. Ormizda of the
  • Antonians
  • Antonin Maronite Order
  • Antonines
  • Antonins
  • Antony the Great
  • apegha
  • apeuelogia
  • aphoriosmos
  • aphypnistes
  • Apodeipnon
  • Apophthegmata Patrum; Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • apostasia a religione
  • apostasy; derainment
  • apostatae
  • apostates; apostatae; fugitive religious; fugitivi; vagabundi; vagantes; apostasia a religione
  • Apostle of Northumbria
  • Apostle of the Germans
  • Apostoli
  • Apostolic Brethren; Apostolics; Apostolici; Apostoli; Pseudo-Apostles
  • Apostolic Clerks
  • apostolic community; active community
  • apostolic/contemplative community; active/contemplative community
  • Apostolici
  • Apostolics
  • apostolnik; epimandylion
  • apothekarios
  • appamattakavissaajaka
  • appropriation
  • arama; ārāma
  • aramika
  • aramkiapesaka
  • archabbey
  • archabbot
  • archimandrite
  • archivist
  • archontares
  • armarium
  • armarius
  • Armenian monasticism
  • arra
  • arsenas
  • aryika
  • Asanga; Asaṅga (fl. 4th century ce)
  • ashram
  • Asketikon; Rule of St. Basil
  • aspirant
  • Assumptionists
  • Athonite
  • Athonite gerontikon
  • Athos, Mount; Holy Mountain
  • auditorium
  • Augmentation Court
  • Augustine of Canterbury, St. (d. 604)
  • Augustine of Hippo, St. (354–430)
  • Augustinians
  • Augustinians of the Assumption
  • Aum Shinrikyo
  • Austin Canons
  • Austin Friars
  • avasa; avāsā
  • avowess
  • Ayres, Anne
  • ayya
  • B
  • Bacon, Roger (ca. 1220–ca. 1292)
  • bagenares
  • Bahaism
  • Bahtawiyan
  • bailiwick
  • Bairagis
  • Baizhang Huaihai (720–814 ce)
  • bakehouse; pristrinum
  • Baker, Augustine (1575–1641); Baker, Austin
  • Baker, Austin
  • Baladites
  • balcanifer
  • balcanum
  • banchung
  • bandeau
  • bangan
  • bangjang
  • Barah Panthi
  • barb; barbe
  • barbati
  • barbati fratres
  • barbe
  • barber surgeon
  • bard
  • bardocucullus
  • Barefoot Carmelites
  • barefoot friars
  • Barettini
  • Basil of Caesarea
  • Basil the Great, St. (ca. 330–379); Basil of Caesarea
  • Basilian Chouerite Order of St. John the Baptist; Ordo Basilianus Sancti Iohannis Baptistae; Ordre Basilien Chouerite de St. Jean Baptiste
  • Basilian Chouerite Sisters
  • Basilian Fathers
  • Basilian monks
  • Basilian Order of St. Josaphat
  • Basilian Order of the Most Holy Saviour; Ordo Basilianus Sanctissimi Salvatoris; Ordre Basilien Salvatorien; Basilian Salvatorian Order; Salvatorian Fathers
  • Basilian Salvatorian Order
  • bathhouse; balnearium
  • battan
  • bearded brothers
  • beards
  • Beatrice of Silva, St.
  • Beauduin, Lambert (1873–1960)
  • Bede, St. (ca. 673–735); Bede the Venerable; Venerable Bede
  • Bede the Venerable
  • Beghards; Beguini (Latin); Begardi (Latin); Beggarden (German); Bégards (French)
  • beguinage
  • beguinal
  • Beguines; Beguinae (Italian); Begijnen (Dutch); Beginenen (German); Béguines (French) Pinzochera (Italian)
  • Benai Qeima
  • Benat Qeima
  • Benedict of Aniane, St. (ca. 750–821)
  • Benedict of Nursia, St. (ca. 480–ca. 547)
  • Benedictine
  • Benedictine Camaldolese
  • Benedictine centuries
  • Benedictine Confederation of the Order of St. Benedict; Confœderatio Benedictina Ordinis Sancti Benedicti
  • Benedictine Reform
  • Benedictines
  • benefactor
  • benji
  • Benson, Charles Chapman
  • beopdang
  • Bernard of Clairvaux, St. (1090–1153)
  • Berno, Abbot
  • Beta Israel
  • Bethlehem Brothers
  • Bethlehemite Brothers
  • bhandagarika
  • bhante
  • bhattuddesaka
  • bhikkhu (Pali); bhikṣu (Sanskrit); gelong (Tibetan)
  • bhikkhuni; bhikkhunī (Pali); bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit); bǐqiūní (Chinese); bikuni (Japanese); ama (Japanese); biguni (Korean); tỉ-khâu-ni (Vietnamese); gelongma (Tibetan)
  • bhikkuhunovaadaka
  • bhiksha
  • bhiksuni
  • bibliotheca
  • biguni
  • bikuni
  • bilo
  • biqiuní
  • Black Book
  • Black Canons
  • black fast
  • Black Friars
  • Black Monks
  • Black Nuns
  • bleeding
  • Blessing of the Water
  • bloodletting; bleeding; phlebotomy; seynies; seyny
  • Blue Friars
  • Bodhidharma (ca. 470–543); Daruma (Japan)
  • Bojo Jinul (1158–1210); Jinul; Chinul
  • Bon monasticism
  • Bonaventure, St. (1221–1274)
  • Boni Homines
  • Boniface, St. (ca. 675–754)
  • Bonshommes
  • bonze
  • bonzery
  • book of hours
  • Book of the First Monks; Decem Libri–Liber de Institutione Primorum Monacharum
  • Book of the History of the Fathers and of Their Words
  • Boots the Bishop
  • bottlery
  • bozu
  • bracinium
  • brebion
  • Brethren of the Common Life; Fratres Vitae Communis; Broeders des Gemeenen Levens (Dutch)
  • Brethren of the Holy Cross
  • breviary
  • breviator
  • brewhouse; bracinium
  • Bridget of Sweden, St.
  • Bridgettines
  • brief
  • Brigid of Ireland
  • Brigid of Kildare, St. (ca. 451–525); Brigid of Ireland
  • Broeders des Gemeenen Levens
  • brooms
  • brother; fra
  • Brothers and Sisters of Penance
  • Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
  • Brothers of Mercy
  • Brothers of Penitence
  • Brothers of Saint Mary of Mount Carmel
  • Brothers of the Poor Life
  • Bruno of Cologne, St. (ca. 1030–1101)
  • Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906–1993); Phra Dharmakosacarya; Nguam
  • Buddhist monasticism
  • budo
  • budo sawaong
  • bursar; hordarian; terrar
  • bursary; spendement
  • burying ceremony
  • Bussho Dento Kokushi
  • Butler, Cuthbert (1858–1934)
  • Butler, William John
  • buttery
  • C
  • Caesarius of Arles, St. (468/470–542)
  • caitaya
  • Cajetan, St.
  • calced
  • caldarium
  • calefactorium
  • calefactory
  • caloyer
  • Camaldolese
  • Camaldolese Hermits of Monte Corona
  • Camaldolese Order; Ordo Camaldulensium
  • camera
  • camerarius
  • Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis
  • Cannon, Harriet Starr (1823–1896)
  • canonesses
  • Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus; Hospital Sisters; Hermit Sisters of St. Augustine
  • canonesses regular
  • Canonical Hours
  • Canonici Regulares Ordinis S. Augustini Congregationis
  • Canonici Regulares Ordinis S. Crucis
  • Canonici Regulares Sancti Antonii
  • Canonici Regulares Sanctissimae Crucis a Stella Rubea
  • canonry
  • canons
  • Canons of St. Ambrose
  • Canons of St. Mary of Reno
  • Canons of the Order of St. Benedict
  • canons regular
  • Canons Regular of Fregionaia
  • Canons Regular of St. Anthony of Vienne
  • Canons Regular of St. Augustine; Augustinian Canons Regular; Canonici Regulares Ordinis S. Augustini Congregationis; Black Canons (UK); Austin Canons (UK)
  • Canons Regular of St. Augustine of the Congregation of the Most Holy Savior at the Lateran
  • Canons Regular of Santa Maria in Portu
  • Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra; Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Sanctae Crucis
  • Canons Regular of the Lateran; Canons Regular of St. Augustine of the Congregation of the Most Holy Savior at the Lateran; Congregatio Sanctissimi Salvatoris Lateranensis
  • Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross; Canonici Regulares Ordinis S. Crucis; Crosiers; Brethren of the Holy Cross
  • cantor; cantrix (female); provisor; custos
  • cantrix
  • capella ante portas
  • capicerius
  • capitular
  • capitular definitor
  • capitularly
  • capitulary
  • capitulum
  • capoch
  • cappa
  • capuccio
  • capuce
  • capuche; capuce; capuccio
  • Capuchin Poor Clares; Sisters of Suffering
  • Capuchiness
  • Capuchins
  • caputium
  • Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance
  • Carmelites
  • carrels
  • Carta Caritatis
  • Carthusians; Ordo Cartusiensis; Order of St. Bruno
  • cartulary
  • Casel, Odo (1886–1948)
  • Cassian, St. John
  • Cassinese Congregation
  • Cassino, Monte
  • Cassiodorus (ca. 485–ca. 585); Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • cassock
  • cassock coat
  • cassock vest; kontorasson; amaniko; gileko
  • caterer
  • cathedral monastery; cathedral priory
  • cathedral priory
  • Catherine of Bologna, St. (1413–1463)
  • Catubhummika Mahasatipaṭṭhana Nikaya
  • Celestines; Hermits of St. Damiano; Morronites
  • celibacy
  • cell; monasterium; parivena (Buddhism); drashag (Tibetan)
  • cellar; cellarium
  • cellarer; cellaress (female); procurator; manciple; econome (Eastern Church); oikonomos (Eastern Church)
  • cellaress
  • cellarium
  • Cells
  • cena
  • cenobite; mynstermon (Anglo-Saxon)
  • cenobitic
  • cenobitism
  • cenobium
  • census
  • C.F.R.
  • chamberlain; camerarius; vestiarius
  • chanter; chantress (female)
  • chantress
  • chaplain
  • Chapman, John (1865–1933)
  • chapter
  • chapter house; synodikon (Eastern Church)
  • chapter of faults
  • charism
  • charistikarioi; charistikarios
  • charistikarios
  • charistike; charistikion
  • charistikion
  • Chariton the Confessor, St. (fl. 3rd century ce)
  • Charter of Charity; Carta Caritatis
  • charterhouse
  • chartreuse
  • Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
  • chaturmas
  • checker; chequer; saccarium
  • Cheonggyu
  • chequer
  • chernichki
  • chi phram
  • Chih-i
  • child oblate; puer oblatus
  • Chinul
  • Chishin
  • Chittister, Joan (1936–)
  • Choboq Ar-Rayès, Rafqa Pietra; St. Rafka, St. Rebecca
  • choir; quire
  • choir monastics; choir religious; choir monks; choir nuns
  • choir monks
  • choir nuns
  • choir office
  • choir religious
  • choir stalls; stalls; quire stalls (UK)
  • Christian Community
  • Chrodegang, St.
  • Chrysostom, St.
  • Chu Hung
  • chuji
  • C.I.B.
  • cincture
  • cinctured
  • circaria
  • circary; circaria
  • circas
  • circator; circatore; circas; custodes ordinis
  • circatore
  • circumcelliones
  • Cistercians of the Common Observance; Cistercians of the Original Observance; Ordo Cisterciensis; Bernardines; White Monks; White Nuns
  • Cistercians of the Original Observance
  • Citeaux Abbey; Abbaye de Cîteaux
  • civarabhajaka
  • civaranidahaka
  • civarappatigahaka
  • Clairvaux Abbey
  • clapper
  • Clare of Assisi, St. (1194–1253)
  • claswyr
  • claustral; cloistral
  • claustral oblate
  • claustral prior; prior claustralis; claustral prioress
  • claustral prioress
  • Clerici Regulari a Mater Dei
  • clerics regular; clerks regular
  • Clerics Regular of the Mother of God; Clerici Regulari a Mater Dei
  • clerk of the works
  • clerks regular
  • Climacus, St. John
  • cloistered
  • cloistered communities; enclosed communities
  • cloisterer
  • cloistering; enclosure
  • cloisters
  • cloistral
  • close
  • clothing day
  • Cluniac
  • Cluniac Order
  • Cluniac Reform; Benedictine Reform
  • Cluny Abbey
  • coarb; comharba
  • coenobite
  • coif
  • Colettans
  • Colette, St.
  • Colettine Poor Clares
  • collation
  • Columba, St. (521–597)
  • Columban, St.
  • Columbanus, St. (543–615); Columban
  • comharba
  • commandery
  • commendam
  • commendator; administrator
  • commendatory abbot; abbé commendataire (France)
  • commensalis
  • commissariat
  • commissary
  • commissi
  • common house
  • Common Observance
  • Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum; C.I.B.
  • communion window
  • Community of St. Mary
  • Community of St. Mary the Virgin
  • Community of St. Michael and All Angels
  • Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
  • Company of St. Ursula; Secular Institute of St. Angela Merici; Angelines; Federated Ursulines
  • Compline; Apodeipnon (Orthodox)
  • computation
  • Conceptionists
  • confederation
  • confession temple
  • confraternity; societa
  • confraters
  • Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae
  • Congregatio Sanctissimi Salvatoris
  • congregation
  • Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae
  • Congregation for Religious
  • Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes
  • Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence
  • Congregation of Fiore; Fiorensians
  • Congregation of
  • Congregation of St. Anthony
  • Congregation of St. Basil; Basilian Fathers; Teaching Priests of the Arche
  • Congregation of St. Maur; Maurists
  • Congregation of Savigny
  • Congregation of the Most Holy Savior
  • consecrated virgin
  • Constitutiones Hirsaugienses
  • Constitutions of Theodore
  • consuetudenary
  • consultive definitor
  • contemplative community
  • contemporary religious order
  • contemptus mundi
  • continual prayer
  • convent
  • conventical prior
  • conventual
  • conventual builders
  • conventual church; minster
  • Conventual Franciscans
  • conventual oblate; claustral oblate; regular oblate; intern oblate
  • conventual prior; conventual prioress; conventical prior; prior conventualis
  • conventual priory
  • conventualis
  • Conventuals
  • conversae
  • conversatio morum suorum
  • conversi (men); conversae (women)
  • conversion of life
  • conversus
  • Coptic monasticism
  • coquinarius
  • Cordelier
  • cordon
  • corrector
  • corrodian
  • corrody
  • council
  • Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
  • cowl; capoch; caputium; hood
  • Cowley Fathers
  • C.R.
  • crosier
  • Crosiers
  • Crossed Friars
  • crossfigill
  • Crouched Friars
  • crozier; crosier; pastoral staff
  • Croziers
  • Crucigeri cum Rubea Stella
  • Crucigeri Stellati
  • Crutched Friars; Crossed Friars;
  • C.S.M.
  • C.S.M. and A.A.
  • C.S.M.V.
  • Ctistae
  • cuculla
  • Culdean
  • Culdees; Céilí Dé (Irish); Kaledei
  • cura monialium
  • curia
  • curiosis
  • curtal friar
  • Cusack, Margaret Anna (1829–1899); Cusack, Mary Frances
  • custodes
  • custodes ordinis
  • custodian; warden
  • custody
  • customal
  • customary; consuetudinary; costumal
  • custos
  • custos custodum; discretus discretorum
  • custos general
  • custos provinciae
  • custos provincial
  • custos regimens
  • Cuthbert, St. (ca. 634–687)
  • D
  • Daily Office; Divine Office; Canonical Hours; Opus Dei; Liturgy of the Hours; Hours
  • daishu
  • dalai lama
  • dame
  • Damian, Peter
  • Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (ca. 1492–1547)
  • dansa chenpo
  • Daruma
  • dasa
  • dasa sil mata
  • Dashanami Sampradaya
  • daughter house
  • Daughters of St. Mary; Deir Banat Maryam
  • Daughters of the Covenant
  • David, St. (fl. 5th or 6th century)
  • Day Hours
  • day room
  • day stairs
  • Dayananda, Swami
  • deace
  • dean
  • decana
  • de Chantal, Jane Frances
  • dedication
  • deece
  • definitor
  • definitor general
  • definitorium
  • defrock
  • deice
  • Deir Banat Maryam
  • de la Barrière, Jean
  • demesne
  • Dengyo Daishi
  • denization
  • densu
  • Deo gratias
  • deposition
  • derainment
  • de Rancé, Armand Jean le Bouthillier (1626–1700)
  • Desert Fathers
  • Desert Mothers
  • Dhammananda Bhikkhuni (1944–); Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
  • Dhammarakhita Samaneri (1946–); Varangghana Vanavichayen
  • Dharma hall; beopdang
  • Dharmaguptaka Vinaya
  • Dharmapala (1864–1933); Dharmapāla
  • Dhuni
  • dhutanga
  • diakonetes
  • diakonia
  • Digambara
  • discalced
  • Discalced Augustinians
  • Discalced Carmelites
  • Discalced Mercedarians; Ordo Frati Excalceatorum de B.M.V. de Mercede
  • discarius
  • discipline
  • discretus discretorum
  • Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act; Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries
  • dissolution of monasteries
  • Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries Act; Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries
  • diurnal
  • Diurnum
  • Divine Office
  • Dix, Gregory (1901–1952)
  • doan; dōan
  • docheiarios
  • Doctor Expertus
  • Doctor Mirabilis
  • Doctor of the Assumption
  • Doctor Universalis
  • doge
  • Dogen Kigen
  • Dogen Zenji
  • dokusan
  • Dolcino of Novara
  • dom
  • domestic bell
  • Dominic, St. (ca. 1170–1221)
  • Dominicans
  • domus Converso rum
  • domus fenstrae
  • domus necessarium
  • donai
  • donati
  • donchee
  • dormitorium
  • dormitory
  • dorter; dormitorium; dormitory
  • dosan; eka
  • doso; hall monk
  • double monastery; double house; mixed house
  • dovecot; plumbarium
  • dowry
  • drashag
  • dresser window
  • drying room
  • Dunstan, St.
  • dzayraguyn vardapet
  • E
  • Early Mass; Morrow Mass; Missa Familiaris
  • Eastern Christian monasticism
  • ecclesiarch
  • ecclesiastikos
  • Eckhart, Meister (ca. 1260–ca. 1328); Eckhart von Hochheim
  • Eckhart von Hochheim
  • econome
  • economus; oeconomus
  • Eight Precepts
  • Eihei Dogen
  • Eisai (1114–1215); Yosai
  • eka
  • Ekadandisannyasi
  • ekklesiarches
  • ekklesiatikos
  • elachary
  • elder; gheronda (Greek monks); gerontas (Greek monks); gerontissa (Greek nuns); starets (Slavic)
  • elect
  • eleutheron, idiodespoton
  • Elisabeth of Schonau, St. (ca. 1129–1164)
  • embrimia
  • emptiness monks
  • emptor
  • enclosed communities
  • enclosure
  • encowl
  • English Benedictine Congregation
  • English Benedictine Reform
  • enkleistos
  • enkleistra
  • Ennin (793 or 794–864 ce); Jikaku Daishi (Japan)
  • enpatsu
  • enzu
  • epanokalimafko
  • epanokalimavkion; epanokalimafko;
  • epanokamelavkion
  • ephoros
  • epistemonarches
  • epiteretes
  • E.R. Cam.
  • eremite
  • eremitic
  • eremitical
  • esorason
  • Essaioi
  • Essenes; Isiyim (Ancient Hebrew); Essēnoi (Greek); Essaioi (Greek); Ossaioi (Greek)
  • Essenoi
  • Ethelwold of Winchester, St.
  • Ethiopian monasticism
  • Ethiopic Collectio Monastica; Ethiopic Paternicon; Wisdom of the Elders of Ethiopia; Book of the History of the Fathers and of Their Words; Gannat
  • Ethiopic Paternicon
  • Eugenios, Saint
  • Evagrius Ponticus (345–399)
  • Evening Prayer
  • exarch
  • exclaustration
  • excommunication
  • exeant
  • exeat; exeant
  • executive council
  • exemption
  • exennia
  • exorason
  • extern sacristan
  • extern sisters
  • extra-claustral buildings
  • F
  • fakir
  • Falconieri, St. Juliana
  • familia
  • familiars; familia
  • fangzhang
  • farmery
  • Fatebenefratelli
  • father
  • father abbot
  • father immediate
  • Father of Eastern Monasticism
  • Father of English History
  • Father of Monks
  • Father of Scholasticism
  • Father of Western Christian Monasticism
  • Federated Ursulines
  • Felix of Valois, St.
  • fenestra parvula
  • feretrar
  • fermerer
  • fermery
  • Feuillantine
  • Feuillants; Congregation of Notre-Dame des Feuillants (France); Bernardoni (Italy); Reformed Bernardines
  • filatio
  • filiation
  • Fiorensians
  • First Hour
  • first order
  • first vows
  • Five Bhikkhus
  • forest monks
  • Forest Tradition; Kammaṭṭhāna Forest Tradition
  • formation guide
  • formation master; formation mistress; formation guide
  • formation mistress
  • fornication
  • Founder of Christian Monasticism
  • Four
  • Francis de Sales, St.
  • Francis of Assisi, St. (1181 or 1182–1226)
  • Francis of Paola, St. (1416–1507)
  • Franciscan Clarist Order
  • Franciscans
  • frater
  • frateries
  • fraticelli
  • Fraticelli
  • Fraticelli de Paupere Vita
  • fratres barbati; barbati fratres; bearded brothers; conventual builders
  • Fratres Conventuales
  • Fratres Cruciferi
  • Fratres Minores Conventuales
  • Fratres Saccati
  • Fratres Vitae Communis
  • friar
  • Friars de Domina
  • Friars Minor Conventual
  • Friars of Our Lady
  • Friars of St. Mary of Vauvert
  • Friars of the Blessed Mary; Pied Friars; Friars of our Lady; Friars De Domina; Friars of St. Mary of Vauvert; Friars of the Mother of Christ
  • Friars of the Mother of Christ
  • Friars of the Penance of Jesus Christ
  • Friars of the Sack; Friars of the Penance of Jesus Christ; Blue Friars; Brothers of Penitence; Order of the Penance of Jesus Christ; Fratres Saccati
  • Friars of the Strict Observance
  • Friars Preacher
  • friary
  • fuga mundi; flight from the world
  • fugitive religious
  • fugitivi
  • Fujii, Nichidatsu (1885–1985)
  • fukuten
  • fusu; fūsu
  • fuzui
  • G
  • gahapati
  • gahattha
  • Gahusan
  • galilee
  • Gampopa (1079–1153); Sönam Rinchen
  • ganini aryika
  • ganini aryika pramukha
  • Gannat
  • garth
  • Gaston of Valloire
  • gatekeeper
  • geku
  • gelong
  • gelongma
  • general
  • general chapter
  • general superior
  • German Order
  • gerontas
  • gerontikon
  • gerontissa
  • getsul
  • getsulma
  • gheronda
  • gidan
  • gihin
  • Gilbertines
  • gileko
  • Gioacchino da Fiore
  • Giovanni Pietro Carafa
  • goannai
  • godo; godō
  • goenpa
  • going forth
  • gomai
  • Gosains
  • gozan bungaku
  • Gozzolini, St. Sylvester
  • granarias
  • granator
  • granatorius; granarias; granator
  • grand master
  • grand mistress
  • Grandmontines; Order of Grandmont; Boni Homines; Bonshommes
  • grange
  • Great Lavra
  • great schema; megaloschemos (Greek); schima (Church Slavonic)
  • great silence; greater silence; night silence
  • greater prior
  • greater silence
  • Greco-Buddhist monks
  • Gregory the Great, St. (ca. 540–604)
  • Grey Friars
  • Grey Monks
  • grhapati; grhin; grihastha
  • Griffiths, Bede (1906–1993); Dayananda, Swami
  • Groote, Gerard
  • grwa phrug
  • grwa tshogs
  • Gualbert, John
  • Gualberto, Giovanni (ca. 985–1073), St.; Gualberto, John
  • Gualberto Visdomini
  • guardian
  • guardian of the cloister
  • Gueranger, Prosper Louis Pascal (1805–1875)
  • guesthouse; hospice; hospitium
  • guestmaster
  • guestmistress
  • Guide for Anchoresses
  • Guigo I (1083–1136)
  • Guigo II (fl. 12th century)
  • guimpe
  • guru
  • guruma
  • Gutoku
  • Gyatso, Tenzin
  • gyodo
  • gyrovagi
  • gyrovagues; gyrovagi; circumcelliones; widscrithul (Anglo-Saxon)
  • H
  • habit
  • hagioscope; squint; leper window; lychnoscope
  • Haid, Leo (1849–1924)
  • Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1768)
  • Halabites
  • halios
  • hall monk
  • han
  • Harding, Stephen
  • Harriet, Mother
  • hashin kyuji
  • he shang
  • hebdomadarian
  • hebdomadary; hebdomadarian
  • hegumen; hegumenos; igumen; hegumenia (female); ihumenia (female)
  • hegumenate
  • hegumene
  • hegumenia
  • hegumenos
  • helle
  • Heloise (ca. 1100–1164)
  • hemina
  • herb garden; herbarium
  • herbarium
  • hermit; eremite; recluse; solitary; westensetla (Anglo-Saxon)
  • Hermit Sisters of St. Augustine
  • hermitage; hermitary
  • hermitary
  • Hermits of St. Augustine
  • Hermits of St. Damiano
  • Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi
  • Hermits of St. Jerome
  • Hermits of the Order of the Minims
  • Hesperinon
  • hesychasm; hesychia
  • hesychast
  • hesychasterion
  • hesychia
  • hierodeacon
  • hieromonachos
  • hieromonk; hieromonachos
  • Hieronymites
  • hieroschemamonk
  • Hilarion, St. (291–371)
  • Hilda of Whitby, St. (ca. 614–680)
  • Hildebrand of Sovana
  • Hildegard of Bingen, St. (ca. 1098–1179); Hildegard von Bingen
  • Hildegard von Bingen
  • Hindu monasticism
  • Hindu warrior monks; Gosains; Bairagis
  • Hirsau Reforms
  • Hngettwin Nikaya; Catubhummika Ma-hāsatipaṭṭhana Nikāya
  • hoan
  • hojo
  • Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas
  • Holy Man of Renunciation
  • Holy Mountain
  • Honen
  • hood
  • horarium
  • hordarian
  • horo
  • horologion
  • hospice
  • Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony
  • Hospital Sisters
  • Hospitaller
  • Hospitallers
  • Hospitallers of the Observance
  • hospitarius
  • hospitium
  • hosteler
  • hostillar
  • hostler; hosteler; hospitarius; hostillar; guestmaster; guestmistress
  • Hours
  • householder; gihin (Pali); gahattha
  • Hrabanus
  • Hrothswitha of Gandersheim (ca. 932–1000); Roswitha
  • Huaihai
  • Hubbard, L. Ron
  • Hugues de Payens
  • Huineng (638–713 ce); Dajian
  • Huiyuan (334–416 ce)
  • Hume, Basil (1923–1999)
  • Humiliati; Barettini
  • Humilitas
  • Humility, St. (ca. 1226–1310); Humilitas
  • Huntington, James
  • hyaku-nichi kaihogyo
  • hyoseki
  • hypertimos
  • hyphantes
  • I
  • idiodespoton
  • idiorhythmia
  • idiorhythmism; idiorhythmia
  • iera kinotis
  • Ignatius of Jesus, Father
  • igumen
  • ihumenia
  • Ildebrando di Soana
  • immixtio manuum
  • imposed guest;
  • impropriation
  • infirmarer
  • infirmarian; infirmarer; infirmarius;
  • infirmarius
  • infirmary; farmery; fermery
  • inji
  • inner cassock; inner rason; esórason
  • inner enclosure
  • inner parlor
  • inner rason
  • ino
  • inryo
  • institutes of consecrated life
  • Institutione Inclusarum de Institutione Inclusarum
  • intentionarius
  • intern oblate
  • Iona Abbey
  • Ippen Shonin (1239–1289); Zuien
  • Isaac of Nineveh, St. (ca. 613–ca. 700); Isaac the Syrian
  • Isaac the Syrian
  • Isiyim
  • iskeem
  • Islam
  • J
  • Jacobins
  • Jain
  • jata
  • Jerome, St. (ca. 345–420)
  • Jeronymites
  • Jesuit's drops
  • Jewish monasticism
  • jihatsu
  • Jikaku Daishi
  • jikido; jikidō
  • jikijitsu
  • jingren
  • jinju; jinjū
  • Jinul
  • jisha
  • Joachim of Fiore (ca. 1135–1202); Gioacchino da Fiore
  • Joachimites; Joachites
  • Joachites
  • John Cassian, St. (ca. 360–ca. 435)
  • John Chrysostom, St. (ca. 349–407)
  • John Climacus, St. (fl. 6th-7th centuries); John of the Ladder
  • John Damascene
  • John
  • John of Damascus, St. (ca. 675–749);
  • John of God, St.
  • John of the Cross, St. (1542–1591)
  • John of the Ladder
  • joju
  • jokei
  • josaku
  • Joseph of Volokolamsk, St. (1439 or 1440–1515); Joseph Volotsky
  • Joseph
  • Josephinians
  • Josephite monasticism
  • Josephites
  • jubilarian
  • Judaism
  • Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342–ca. 1413)
  • junior
  • juniorate
  • K
  • kaapiya-karaka
  • kafu
  • kaichin
  • kaihan
  • kaihogyo
  • kaijo
  • kaisando; kaisandō
  • kaiyoku
  • kalimavkion; kalymafki; kalymmavchi; kamilavka
  • kalymafki
  • kalymmavchi
  • kamandalu
  • kamilavka
  • kammatthana; kammaṭṭhāna
  • Kammatthana Forest Tradition of Thailand
  • kanban bukuro
  • kancho; kanchō
  • kandelarios
  • kanonarches
  • kansho; kanshō
  • Kapalika; Kāpālika
  • karmapa
  • kasava
  • kasaya; kāṣāya (Sanskrit); kasāva (Pali); kesa (Japanese); gasa (Korean); jiāshā (Chinese); cà-sa (Vietnamese)
  • kashaku; kato
  • kashiwabuton
  • katapemptos
  • kathegumen; katheoumenos
  • katheoumenos
  • Kathina
  • kathisma
  • kathismata
  • katholikon
  • kato
  • Keating, Thomas (1923–)
  • keisaku
  • kellarios; kellarites
  • kellarites
  • kellia
  • Kellia; Cells
  • kellion
  • kelliotes
  • kenchen
  • kentan
  • kesa
  • kesa bunko
  • khajjabhajaka
  • khatvanga
  • khenchung
  • khenmo
  • khenpo
  • khenrab
  • khyim-pa
  • kiku
  • kilrosi
  • King's Book
  • kitan ryushaku
  • kitchener; coquinarius; kitchenmaster
  • kitchenmaster
  • klepalo
  • klobuk
  • Knights Hospitaller; Hospitallers; Knights of St. John; Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; Order of St. John; Order of Hospitallers; Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • Knights of St. John
  • Knights of St. Julian
  • Knights of the Cross with the Red Star; Military Order of the Crusaders of the Red Star; Ordo Militaris Crucigerorum cum Rubea Stella; Canonici Regulares Sanctissimae Crucis a Stella Rubea; Crucigeri cum Rubea Stella; Crucigeri Stellati; Stelliferi
  • Knights Templar; Templars; Poor Knights
  • Knowles, M. David (1896–1974)
  • Kobo-Daishi
  • koinobion
  • kokuho
  • kolonsowa
  • Komuso; Komusō
  • komvoshinion
  • kontorasson
  • koromo
  • korwat
  • Koso Joyo Daishi
  • kotai
  • kotan
  • kotsu
  • koukoulion; kukol (Church Slavonic)
  • koun ryusui
  • koza
  • Kozłowska, Feliksa Magdalena (1862–1921); Sr. Maria Franciszka; Mateczka
  • krestonets
  • kshullak
  • kshullika
  • Ktistai; Ctistae
  • kufu; kufū
  • Kukai (774–835); Kūkai;
  • Kumbh Mela
  • Kunga Gyeltsen (1182–1251)
  • kuri
  • kushalaka
  • kuti; kuṭī (Pali, Thai)
  • kyosaku; kyōsaku; keisaku (Rinzai)
  • kyozo
  • kyriakon
  • L
  • lagan
  • lama
  • Lament, Bolesława Maria (1862–1946)
  • Lanfranc (ca. 1005–1089)
  • laosynaktes
  • larderer
  • Latin Rule
  • Lauds
  • laura
  • laus perennis
  • lavatorium
  • laver; lavatorium
  • lavra
  • lavritic
  • lay abbot, abbas laicus; abbas miles;
  • lay brothers
  • Lay Carmelites
  • lay monastics; lay brothers; lay sisters; extern sisters diakonetes (Greek Orthodox Church)
  • lay sisters
  • Leadership
  • leaning staff
  • Lebanese Antonin Order; Antonin Maronite Order; Antonins; Mar Chaya Monks
  • Lebanese Maronite Order; Baladites; Valadites; Ordre Libanais Maronite
  • LeClercq, Jean (1911–1993)
  • lectio divina
  • lecture hall
  • legenda
  • Lent
  • Leonardi, St. Giovanni
  • leper
  • leprosarium
  • LeSaux, Henri (1910–1973); Abhishiktananda
  • lesser schema
  • lesser silence
  • libellikon
  • libellos
  • liber vitae
  • librarian; armarius; bibliophylax (Eastern Church); bibliothekarios (Eastern Church)
  • library; bibliotheca; armarium
  • licentiate
  • Liciac, Stephen
  • life vows
  • limitation
  • limiter; limitour
  • limitour
  • liti
  • Little Flower of Jesus
  • Little Gidding
  • little habit
  • Little Hours
  • little schema
  • little silence; lesser silence; simple silence
  • Liturgy of the Hours
  • Lives of the Fathers; Lives of the Desert Fathers; Vitae Patrum
  • locutorium
  • locutory
  • lodge
  • Longo, Maria
  • luang phi
  • luang por; luang pho
  • luang pu
  • luang ta
  • Luther, Martin (1483–1546)
  • Lutheran
  • lychnoscope
  • Lyne, Joseph Leycester (1837–1908); Ignatius of Jesus, Father
  • lynghouse
  • M
  • Macarius of Egypt, St. (ca. 300–391); Macarius the Elder; Macarius the Great
  • Macarius the Elder
  • Macarius the Great
  • Macrina the Younger, St. (ca. 330–379)
  • mae chee
  • mae jis
  • maechi (Thailand); mae chee (Thailand); mae jis (Thailand); dasa sil mata (Sri Lanka); donchee (Cambodia); thilashin (Myanmar, Nepal); guruma (Nepal, Laos), sayalay (Myanmar); siladhara (England); ten precept mother
  • Mael Ruain, St. (d. 792); Máel Ruain
  • mageiras
  • magistra
  • magna fenestra versatilis
  • magoulikion; phakiolion; skepe
  • Maha Dwara Nikaya; Maha Dwaya
  • Maha Dwaya Nikaya
  • Mahadvara Nikaya
  • mahant
  • Mahapajapati Gotami; Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (Pali); Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī (Sanskrit)
  • Mahasthabir Nikaya
  • mahathera; mahāthera
  • mahavihara
  • Main, John (1926–1982)
  • majjhima
  • Major Hours
  • major superior
  • manciple
  • mandias
  • mandorasson
  • mandriarch
  • mandyas
  • Manichaeism
  • manistan
  • Mantellatae
  • mantiya
  • mantle; mandias (Greek); mandyas (Greek); mantíya (Church Slavonic)
  • Mar Chaya Monks
  • Mar Saba; Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas; Great Lavra
  • marathon monks
  • Mariamite Maronite Order; Aleppians; Halabites; Ordo Maronita Mariamita; Ordo Maronita Beatae Mariae Virginis Aleppians
  • Marie, Mother
  • Marmion, Columba (1858–1923)
  • marriage
  • martha
  • Martin of Tours, St. (ca. 316 or 336–397)
  • martyrdom
  • martyrology
  • Mary of the Gaels
  • master general
  • master of children; mistress of children
  • master of work
  • matha
  • Mathurins
  • Matins; Night Office; Orthros (Orthodox)
  • matricularius; master of work; maître d'oeuvre; clerk of the works
  • Maturins
  • Maurists
  • Maximos the Greek
  • Maximos the Hagiorite
  • Maximus the Greek, St. (1475–1556); Maximos the Greek; Maximos the Hagiorite;
  • Maximus the Philosopher
  • Mechitarists
  • mediocre
  • megaloschemos
  • Mekhitar of Sebaste
  • Mekhitarists; Mechitarists
  • Mellifluous Doctor
  • melote; pera
  • Members of the Covenant; Sons of the Covenant; Benai Qeima (men); Daughters of the Covenant; Benat Qeima (women)
  • mendicant
  • Mendicant Century
  • mendicant orders
  • mensa
  • Mercedarians
  • Merciful Brothers
  • Merici, St Angela
  • Merton, Thomas (1915–1968)
  • Mesonyktikon
  • metanoia
  • Meteora
  • Methodist monasticism
  • metochion
  • Michaelites
  • Milarepa (ca. 1052–ca. 1135 ce)
  • military order
  • Military Order of the Crusaders of the Red Star
  • Milleret, St. Marie Eugénie
  • Minimi
  • Minims
  • minister general; general minister; minister generalis
  • minister generalis
  • minister provincial
  • Minor Hours, Little Hours
  • Minoresses
  • Minorites
  • minuti
  • minutor
  • mircoschema
  • misericord; misericordia
  • misericordia
  • Missa
  • Missionaries
  • Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family
  • mistress; martha
  • mistress of children
  • miter
  • mixed house
  • mixed rule
  • mixtum
  • mnemosyna
  • monachae
  • monachise
  • monachism
  • monasterial
  • monastery; cenobium; matha (Hinduism); goenpa (Dzongkha); lamasery (Tibet & Mongolia)
  • Monastery of St. Anthony
  • Monastery of St. John the Forerunner
  • Monastery of Stoudios
  • monastic
  • Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin, and of St. Bruno; Monks and Sisters of Bethlehem
  • monastic fraternities
  • monastic Lent
  • Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights; State of the Teutonic Order; Staat des Deutschen Ordens; Deutschordensstaat
  • monastical
  • monasticism; monachism
  • monasticon
  • Mongkut (1804–1868); Rama IV
  • monk
  • monkery
  • monkhood
  • monkish
  • Monks
  • Monte Cassino
  • monydrion
  • More, Gertrude (1606–1633)
  • Morning Prayer
  • Moronites
  • Morrow Mass
  • mother
  • mother general
  • mother house
  • mother prior
  • mother superior
  • Mount Athos
  • Mula Sangha
  • Mulasarvastivada Vinaya
  • Mun Bhuridatta Thera (1870–1949)
  • muni; nirgrantha
  • murmuring
  • mustardarius
  • mynstermon
  • N
  • Naga sadhus; Naga sādhus
  • naginata
  • nakatan
  • nap; siesta
  • narashimono
  • Nath;
  • Nath Siddhas
  • Natha
  • navaka
  • navakammika
  • Nazirite
  • necessarium
  • necrology
  • nen
  • neophyte
  • Nestorian monasticism
  • nestyazhateli
  • New
  • Nguam Phanit
  • Nguyen Xuan Bao
  • Nhat Hanh, Thich
  • Night Hours
  • Night Office
  • night silence
  • night stairs
  • nikayas; nikāyas; monastic fraternities; frateries
  • Nil Sorsky
  • Nilus of Sora, St. (ca. 1433–1508); Nil Sorsky
  • Ninth Hour
  • nirgrantha; muni
  • nissaya-muttaka
  • nisshitsu
  • Nitria
  • nitten soji; nitten sōji
  • niwazume; tangaryo; tangazume
  • niya sanjitsu
  • nocturnes
  • Nolasco, St. Peter
  • None; Ninth Hour (Orthodox)
  • nonnae
  • non-possessors; nestyazhateli
  • Noon Prayer; Diurnam
  • Norbert, St.
  • Norbertines
  • noso; nōsō
  • novice; neophyte; poslushnik (Russian)
  • novice guardian; novice master; novice mistress
  • novice master
  • novice mistress
  • novitiate
  • nun town
  • nunnery
  • nuns; sisters; sanctimoniales; monachae; nonnae; tasooni (Coptic)
  • Nuns of the Third Order of Servites; Mantellatae
  • nuntius
  • nutritae
  • nutriti (male); nutritae (female)
  • O
  • O. Camald.; O.S.B. Cam.
  • O. Cart.
  • O. Cist.
  • O. de M.
  • Oath of Supremacy
  • obedience (noun)
  • obedience (verb)
  • obedientiary
  • obedientiary prior
  • obedientiary priory; simple priory
  • obedientiary system
  • oblates
  • oblation
  • Observantines
  • Observants
  • O.C.D.
  • O.C.S.O.
  • oeconomus
  • Oengus the Culdee
  • office hymn
  • officiant
  • O.F.M. Cap.; O.M. Cap.; O.S.F.C.
  • ogho
  • O.H.C.
  • oikonomos
  • Olivetans;
  • O.M.
  • O.M. Cap.; O.F.M. Cap.; O.S.F.C
  • O.M.C.R.S.
  • Opus
  • Ora et Labora
  • oratory
  • order
  • Order of Alcantara; Knights of St. Julian; Orde de Alcántara (Leonese); Orden de Alcántara (Spanish)
  • Order of Aubrac
  • Order of Augustinian Recollects; Augustinian Recollects; Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum
  • Order of Bethlehemite Brothers; Ordo Fratrum Bethlemitarum; Bethlehemite Brothers; Bethlehem Brothers; Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Bethlehem
  • Order of Brothers of the German House of St. Mary in Jerusalem; Ordo Fratrum Domus Hospitalis Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum in Jerusalem; Teutonic Knights; Teutonic Order; German Order
  • Order of Calatrava
  • Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré; Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis; Norbertines; Premonstratensians; Premonstratensian Order; White Canons; White Canonesses
  • Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance; Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae; Trappists (men); Trappistines (women)
  • Order of Contemporary Benedictines
  • Order of Discalced Augustinians; Discalced Augustinians; Ordo Augustiniensium Discalceatorum
  • Order of Discalced Carmelites; Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum; Discalced Carmelites; Barefoot Carmelites; Teresians
  • Order of Friars Minor; Ordo Fratrum Minorum; Friars of the Strict Observance; Observants; Observantines
  • Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum; Capuchins
  • Order of Friars Minor Conventual; Friars Minor Conventual; Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium; Conventual Franciscans; Minorites; Grey Friars; Friars of the Community; Fratres Conventuales; Fratres Minores Conventuales; Relaxati
  • Order of Friars Servants
  • Order of Grandmont
  • Order of Hermits of St. Augustine
  • Order of Hospitallers
  • Order of Interbeing
  • Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
  • Order of Merced
  • Order of Minims; Minims; Minimi; Hermits of the Order of the Minims; Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi
  • Order of Our Lady of Mount Olivet
  • Order of
  • Order of Preachers; Dominicans; Ordo Praedicatorum; Preaching Friars; Friars Preacher; Black Friars; Jacobins (pejorative)
  • Order of St. Anthony; Canons Regular of St. Anthony of Vienne; Canonici Regulares Sancti Antonii; Antonines
  • Order of St. Augustine; Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini; Austin Friars (UK); Augustinian Friars; Augustinian Hermits; Order of Hermits of St. Augustine; Hermits of St. Augustine
  • Order of St. Basil the Great; Basilian Order of St. Josaphat; Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni
  • Order of St. Benedict; Ordo Sancti Benedicti; Benedictines; Black Monks (UK); Black Nuns (UK)
  • Order of St. Benedict (Orthodox)
  • Order of St. Bruno
  • Order of St. Clare
  • Order of St. Damiano
  • Order of St. Jerome; Hieronymites; Jeronymites; Order of St. Jerome, Ordo Sancti Hieronymi; Hermits of St. Jerome
  • Order of St. John
  • Order of St. Lazarus; Order of St. Lazarus
  • Order of St. Paul the First Hermit; Ordo Fratrum Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae; Pauline Order
  • Order of St. Ursula
  • Order of Solomon's Temple
  • Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy; Mercedarians; Order of Merced; Order of Our Lady of Ransom; Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy; Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum; Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives
  • Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Bethlehem
  • Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel; White Friars
  • Order of the Holy Cross
  • Order of the Immaculate Conception; Conceptionists; Ordo Inmaculatae
  • Order of the Most Holy Savior; Bridgettines; Bridgettine Order; Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris
  • Order of the Most Holy Trinity; Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives; Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum; Redemptionists; Mathurins; Maturins; Red Friars
  • Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives
  • Order of the Penance of Jesus Christ
  • Order of the Service of Mary; Servites; Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis; Order of Friars Servants of Mary
  • Order of the Visitation
  • Order of Tiron; Tironensian Order; Grey Monks
  • Order of Watchers; Ordre des Veilleurs
  • ordifex
  • ordination
  • Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum
  • Ordo Augustiniensium Discalceatorum
  • Ordo Basilianus Sancti Iohannis Baptistae
  • Ordo Basilianus Sanctissimi Salvatoris
  • Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum
  • Ordo Camaldulensium
  • Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Sanctae Crucis
  • Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum
  • Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum
  • Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Saecularis Ordo Cartusiensis
  • Ordo
  • Ordo Cisterciensis
  • Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae
  • Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis
  • Ordo Fratrum Bethlemitarum
  • Ordo Fratrum Minorum
  • Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum
  • Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium
  • Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini
  • Ordo Fratrum Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae
  • Ordo Hospitalarius S. Ioannis de Deo
  • Ordo Inmaculatae Conceptionis
  • Ordo Maronita Beatae Mariae Virginis Aleppians
  • Ordo Maronita Mariamita
  • Ordo Militaris Crucigerorum cum Rubea
  • Ordo Praedicatorum
  • Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni
  • Ordo Sancti Benedicti
  • Ordo Sancti Hieronymi
  • Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum
  • Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris
  • Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis
  • Ordo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis
  • Ordre Basilien Chouerite de St. Jean
  • Ordre Basilien Salvatorien
  • Ordre des Veilleurs
  • Ordre Libanais Maronite
  • Orthodox Community of St. Benedict;
  • Orthros
  • oryoki; ōryōki; patra (Sanskrit)
  • O.S.A.
  • O.S.B.
  • O.S.B. Cam.; O. Camald.
  • O.S.B. Cel.
  • O.S.B. Cn
  • O.S.C.
  • O.S.C. Cap.
  • O.S.F.C.; O.M. Cap.; O.F.M. Cap.
  • O.S.H.
  • oshiku
  • osho; oshō (Japanese), he shang (Chinese)
  • O.S.M.
  • O.S.P.P.E.
  • Ossaioi
  • O.Ss.S.
  • O.SS.T.
  • ostiarios
  • O.T.
  • outer cassock; rasson (Greek); exorason (Greek); mandorrason (Greek); riasa (Russian); ryasa (Russian, Ukrainian); raso (Byzantine)
  • outer enclosure
  • outer parlor
  • P
  • pabbajja; pabbajjā (Pali); pravrajya (Sanskrit); shinbyu (Burmese); shinpyu (Burmese); going forth
  • pabbijjaniya-kamma
  • Pachomius the Great, St. (292–348)
  • padre
  • Paisius Velichkovsky, St.
  • Palamas, Gregory, St. (ca. 1296–1357 or 1359)
  • panchen bogd
  • panchen lama
  • Paolo Consiglieri
  • paradise
  • parakellarios
  • parakellarites
  • paraman
  • paramand; paramandyas (Greek); paraman (Church Slavonic)
  • paramandyas
  • parchmenter; percaminarius
  • parlor; locutorium; locutory; auditorium; day room; common house; speke house
  • parlor window
  • paroikonomos
  • paruchia
  • Patimokkha; Prātimokṣa (Sanskrit)
  • patisaraniya kamma
  • patra
  • Paul of Thebes, St. (ca. 227–ca. 341); Paul the Anchorite
  • Paul the Anchorite
  • Pauline Order
  • peculiar
  • peculium
  • penitentiary
  • pera
  • percaminarius
  • perpetual
  • perpetual prayer; continual prayer; laus perrenis
  • perpetual vows
  • Peter Damian, St. (ca. 1007–ca. 1072)
  • Peter of Alcantara, St. (1499–1562)
  • Peter of St. Joseph Betancur
  • phakiolion
  • phalabhajaka
  • Philokalia
  • phlebotomy
  • phongyibyan; phongyibyan pwe;
  • phra
  • Phra Dharmakosacarya
  • picchi
  • pidryasnyk
  • Pied Friars
  • Pilgrimage of Grace
  • pindapat
  • Pinzochera
  • Pirmin, St.
  • Pirminius
  • pisalis
  • piscina
  • pittance
  • pittancer
  • plumbarium
  • podriasnik; podryásnik
  • podryasnik
  • polystavrion
  • Poor Clares; Order of St. Clare; Poor Ladies; Poor Enclosed Nuns; Order of St. Damiano, Minoresses; Franciscan Clarist Order; Second Order of St. Francis; Urbanist Poor Clares
  • Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration
  • Poor Enclosed Nuns
  • Poor
  • Poor Knights of Christ
  • Poor Ladies
  • Poresigh, Abram Atar
  • porter; gatekeeper; doorkeeper; ostiarios (Greek Orthodox); pyloros (Greek Orthodox); thyroros (Greek Orthodox)
  • posadha
  • poslushnik
  • possessors
  • post-nominal
  • postulancy; probation
  • postulant
  • poulter
  • poustinia
  • poustinik
  • Praeceptor Germaniae
  • praepositus
  • prandium
  • Pratimoksa
  • pratyekabuddha
  • pravarana (Pali); jishi (Japanese)
  • pravrajya
  • Preaching Friars
  • precentor
  • precept master
  • preceptor
  • preceptory
  • precinct
  • prelate
  • Premonstratensians
  • Presbyterian Church monasticism
  • president-general
  • Prime; First Hour
  • Primitives
  • prior
  • prior claustralis
  • prior conventualis
  • prior general
  • prior major; greater prior
  • prior of the cloisters
  • prior provincial
  • prioral
  • priorate; priorship
  • prioress; sister prior
  • priorship
  • priory; cell; obedience
  • prisons
  • pristrinum
  • privy
  • probation
  • procession
  • procuration
  • professed
  • profession
  • profession ring
  • prohegumen
  • pronoetes
  • proprietary
  • proprietary church
  • protohegumen
  • protopresbyteros
  • protos
  • province
  • provincial
  • provisor
  • provost; praepositus (Latin)
  • Pseudo-Apostles
  • pseudomonastic
  • psychika
  • pudding house
  • pudding wife
  • puer oblatus
  • puja; pūjā
  • pulpitum
  • Pure Rules; Cheonggyu
  • pyloros
  • Q
  • quasimonastic
  • questarius
  • quire
  • R
  • Rabanus Maurus Magnentius
  • Radha Charan Mahasthabir
  • rajoharan
  • rakusu
  • Rama IV
  • Ramakrishna Order
  • Rancé, Armand Jean le Bouthillier
  • raso
  • rasophoros
  • rasso
  • rassophore; rasophoros (Church Slavonic)
  • rasura
  • Raymond of Fitero, St.
  • RB
  • reader in frater
  • reclinatoria
  • recluse
  • Recollects
  • rector
  • rector general
  • Red Friars
  • Redemptionists
  • refectorer; refectorian; refectorias; fraterer
  • refectorian
  • refectorias
  • refectorium
  • refectory; refectorium; frater; fratery; trapeza (Eastern Church); aristeterion (Greek)
  • refectory pulpit; frater pulpit
  • reformado
  • Reformed Bernardines
  • regula
  • Regula Bullata
  • Regula Canonicorum
  • Regula Magistri
  • Regula Non Bullata
  • Regula Prima
  • Regula Secunda
  • Regula Virginum
  • regular canon
  • regular canonesses
  • regular clergy; regulars
  • Regular Clerks of the Community
  • Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence
  • regular oblate
  • Regularis Concordia
  • regulars
  • Relaxati
  • religious
  • religious house
  • religious
  • Religious of the Assumption; Religious Sisters of the Assumption; Sisters of the Assumption
  • Religious of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis
  • religious order; order
  • Religious Sisters of the Assumption
  • remoboths
  • Rennyo (1415–1499)
  • renunciate
  • renunciation
  • rere-dorter; necessarium; domus necessaria
  • retro-choir; retro-quire (UK)
  • retro-quire
  • reverend father
  • reverend mother
  • revestiarius
  • Rhabanus
  • riasa
  • Riepp, Benedicta (1825–1862)
  • rinpoche
  • rintan
  • RM
  • Robert of Molesme, St. (ca. 1028–1111)
  • rochet
  • rohatsu; rōhatsu
  • Romuald, St. (ca. 950–ca. 1025–1027)
  • roshi; rōshi
  • Roswitha
  • rota
  • rotularius
  • rotulus
  • Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives
  • Rule for a Recluse
  • Rule for Virgins; Regula Virginum
  • Rule of Ceili De; Rule of
  • Rule of Grandmont
  • rule of life; regula
  • Rule of St. Albert
  • Rule of St. Augustine
  • Rule of St. Basil
  • Rule of St. Benedict; Regula Benedicti
  • Rule of St. Chrodegang; Regula Canonicorum
  • Rule of St. Clare
  • Rule of St. Columba
  • Rule of St. Columbanus
  • Rule of St. Francis
  • Rule of St. Stephen
  • Rule of the Knights Templar
  • Rule of the Master; Regula Magistri
  • ryasa
  • S
  • sa di
  • Sabaite
  • Sabbas the Sanctified, St. (439–532)
  • Sacred Congregation for Consultations about Regulars
  • Sacred Monastery of the
  • sacristan; ecclesiarch (Eastern church); skeuophylax (male, Eastern Orthodox Church); skeuophylakiss (females, Eastern Orthodox church)
  • sacristy; skeuophylakion (Eastern Orthodox)
  • sadhu, sādhu; sannyāsī; swami; vairagi
  • sadhvi; sādhvī; sanyāsini; swamini;
  • Saicho (767–822 ce); Dengyō Daishi
  • St. Catherine's Monastery; Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai
  • St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes
  • saiza
  • Sakya Pandita
  • sakya-putta; sākya-putta
  • Salesian Sisters
  • sallekhana; santhara
  • salter; mustardarius
  • Salvatorian Fathers
  • samakaccka
  • samakaksika
  • samana
  • samanen
  • samaner
  • samanera; sāmaṇera (Pali); samanen (Thai); samaner (Khmer); sa di (Vietnamese); śrāmaṇera (Sanskrit); shāmí (Chinese); getsül (Tibetan); shin thamanei (Burmese)
  • samanerapsaka
  • samaneri; sāmaṇerī (Pali); śrāmaṇerī (Sanskrit); śrāmaṇerikā (Sanskrit); shāmíní (Chinese); śikṣamāṇā (Sans-krit); sikkhamānā (Pali); shìchāmónà (Chinese); getsulma (Tibetan)
  • samgha
  • samghati; saṃghāti
  • samnyasa
  • samu
  • samue
  • samvegi
  • sanctinomiales
  • sando
  • sangha; saṃgha (Sanskrit); sēngjiā (Chinese)
  • sangha-bheda
  • sangha sammuti
  • sanghadisesa
  • sangharaja
  • Sangharaja
  • Sangharaja Saramedha Mahasthabira
  • sanguinati
  • sanno
  • sannyasa; sannyāsa; saṃnyāsa
  • sannyasi
  • sannyasini
  • santhara
  • sanzen
  • sarabaites; remoboths; sylfdemas (Anglo-Saxon)
  • sarozium
  • sarvabhutahita
  • Savignac Order; Congregation of Savigny
  • Savonarola, Girolamo (1452–1498)
  • sayadaw
  • sayalay
  • S.C.
  • scapular
  • scedula
  • scetis
  • Scetis; Sketis; Wadi El Natrun
  • schema
  • schema monk
  • schema nun
  • Schenoudi
  • schima
  • Scholastica, St. (ca. 480–543)
  • Schutz, Roger (1915–2005)
  • Scientology monasticism
  • scriptorarius
  • scriptorium
  • Sea Organization
  • Second Benedict
  • second order
  • Second Order of St. Francis
  • secular abbot
  • Secular Carmelites
  • Secular Franciscan Order
  • Secular Institute
  • Secular Institute of St. Angela Merici
  • secular oblates
  • Secular
  • Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and of the Holy Mother St. Teresa of Jesus
  • secularization
  • secularize
  • Segarelli, Gerard
  • seichu
  • self-immolation
  • semandron
  • semantarion
  • semantron; semandron; semantarion; xylon; xulon; toaca (Romanian); bilo (Russian); klepalo (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian)
  • semi-monastic
  • senasanagghahapaka
  • senasanapannapaka
  • sengjia
  • senich kaihogyo
  • senmon dojo
  • sennichi kaihogyo
  • senpectae
  • Senuti
  • septimanarian
  • Seraphic
  • Seraphim of Sarov, St. (1754 or 1759–1833)
  • Serge of Radonezh
  • Sergey Radonezhsky
  • Sergius of Radonezh, St. (ca. 1314–1392); Sergey Radonezhsky; Serge of Radonezh
  • Servites
  • servitors; sizars
  • sesshin
  • setsu ango
  • Seven Holy Founders
  • Sext; Sixth Hour (Orthodox)
  • seynies; seyny
  • Shakers; United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
  • shakuhachi
  • shamarpa
  • shamí
  • shamini
  • shaucha
  • shaveling
  • shaving; rasura
  • Shen-hsiu
  • Shenouda
  • Shenoute of Atripe
  • Shenoute the Archimandrite
  • Shenoute the Great, St. (ca. 350–ca. 466); Shenoute the Archimandrite; Shenoute of Atripe; Shenouda; Schenoudi; Senuti
  • Shenxiu
  • shichamona
  • shichido garan
  • shika
  • shike
  • shikunichi
  • shin thamanei
  • shin'igi
  • shinkin
  • shinpyu
  • Shinran (1173–1263)
  • shinto
  • shippei
  • shokan
  • shripujya
  • shukin
  • shuto
  • shuya
  • Shwegyin Nikaya; Shwekyin Nikāya
  • Shwekyin Nikaya
  • Sibyl of the Rhine
  • siesta
  • Sikhism
  • sikkhamana
  • siksamana
  • siladhara
  • sima; sīma
  • simple priory
  • simple silence
  • simple vows; first vows
  • singnad janeu
  • sister prior
  • Sisterhood of the Holy Communion
  • sisters
  • Sisters for Christian Community
  • Sisters of Charity
  • Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
  • Sisters of Suffering
  • Sisters of the Assumption
  • sisya
  • Sixth Hour
  • sizars
  • skepe
  • skete
  • Sketis
  • skeuophylakion
  • skeuophylakissa
  • skeuophylax
  • skoufos
  • skufia; skufiya; skoufos
  • skufiya
  • slype
  • small schema
  • snaghati
  • soan
  • societa
  • society of apostolic life
  • Society of St. Augustine; Societas Sancti Augustini; Augustinians of Kansas
  • Society of St. John the Evangelist; Cowley Fathers
  • socius
  • sodo; sōdō; sorin, senmon dōjō
  • sohei; sōhei; shuto
  • Soldiers of St. Antony
  • solemn vows; life vows; perpetual vows
  • Solesmes Abbey; Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes; St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes
  • Sons
  • sosan; sōsan
  • sostikon
  • Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • sozarei
  • spatiamentum
  • Specific Behavior for the Templar Order; Latin Rule; Rule of the Knights Templar
  • speke house
  • spendement
  • Spiritual Franciscans; Spirituals; Fraticelli; Spiritual Franciscans; Zelanti; Michaelites; Fraticelli de Paupere Vita; Brothers of the Poor Life
  • Spirituals
  • squint
  • sramanera
  • sramaneri
  • sramanerika
  • S.S.J.E.
  • stabilitas
  • stability; stabilitas
  • stall
  • staple
  • starets
  • staritsa
  • startsy; starets (men); staritsa (women)
  • statio
  • stationaries
  • stauropegial monastery
  • stauropegion
  • stavropegial monastery; stavropegic monastery; stauropegial monastery
  • stavropegic monastery
  • stavrophore; stavrophoros (Greek); little schema; lesser schema; microschema; small schema; krestonosets (Church Slavonic)
  • stavrophoros
  • Stein, Edith (1891–1942); Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; Teresa Benedicta a Cruce (Latin)
  • Stelliferi
  • Stephen of Muret, St.
  • Stephen of Perm, St. (1340–1396)
  • stew pond; stew
  • Stockdale, Henrietta (1847–1911)
  • Stoudion
  • Stoudios
  • Stoudite
  • Strict Observance of the Order of Grand-mont
  • Studion
  • Studios; Stoudios; Stoudion; Studion; Monastery of Stoudios; Monastery of St. John the Forerunner
  • Studite; Stoudite
  • stupa
  • stylite
  • subalmoner
  • subcantor
  • subcellarer; parakellarios (Eastern Church); parakellarites (Eastern
  • subdean
  • Subiaco Abbey; Abbey of St. Scholastica; Abbazia di Santa Scolastica
  • Subiaco Cassinese Congregation
  • Subiaco Congregation
  • subordinate prior
  • subordinate prioress
  • subprior; subprioress
  • subprioress
  • subsacrist; undersacristan; paraecclesiarch (Eastern church)
  • succentor; subcantor
  • Sudhamma Nikaya
  • Suger
  • suikai
  • suizen
  • superior
  • superior general;
  • supper; cena
  • supreme moderator
  • suzu
  • Svetambara; Śvētāmbara
  • swami
  • swamini
  • sylfdemas
  • Sylvestrine Congregation
  • Symeon the New Theologian, St. (949–1022)
  • synaxis
  • synodikon
  • T
  • Ta Tao Fa Tzu
  • tabula
  • T'ai-hsu
  • Taixu (1890–1947); T'ai-hsu
  • Taize
  • taking the veil
  • taku
  • takuhatsu
  • talapoin; talapoy
  • talapoy
  • tan
  • tanbuton
  • tangaryo
  • tangazume
  • tanto; tantō
  • Taoist monasticism
  • taphiotes
  • tashi-lama
  • tasooni
  • taylery
  • Teacher of Germany
  • Teaching Priests of the Ardèche
  • teihatsu
  • Templars
  • temple town
  • tempora minutionis
  • ten precept mother
  • Ten Precepts
  • Tendai monks
  • tengai
  • tenjin
  • Tenzin
  • tenzo
  • Terce; Third Hour (Orthodox)
  • Teresa Benedicta a Cruce
  • Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
  • Teresa of Avila, St. (1515–1582); Teresa of Jesus
  • Teresa of Calcutta, Mother (1910–1997)
  • Teresa of Jesus
  • Teresians
  • terrar
  • territorial abbey; abbey nullius; abbatia nullius dioecesis
  • territorial abbot; abbot nullius; abbot nullius dioeceseos
  • tertianship
  • tertiary
  • Tertius Ordo Regularis S. Francisci
  • tesho-lama
  • teshu-lama
  • Teutonic Knights
  • Thai Forest Tradition
  • thathanabaing; thathanapaing; thatha-napyu
  • thathanapaing
  • Theatines; Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence; Regular Clerks of the Community; Pauline Monks; Apostolic Clerks; Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence
  • Theodore of Stoudios
  • Theodore of Studium
  • Theodore the Studite, St. (ca. 758–ca. 826); Theodorus Studit; Theodore of Stoudios; Theodore of Studium
  • Theodorus Studit
  • Theodosius
  • thera
  • Therapeutae
  • Therese of Lisieux, St. (1873–1897)
  • theri
  • Thich
  • thilashin
  • Third Hour
  • third order; third order secular
  • Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Lay Carmelites
  • Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance
  • Third Order Regular of St. Francis; Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance; Religious of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis; Tertius Ordo Regularis S. Francisci
  • third order secular
  • Third
  • third prior; third prioress
  • Thomas Aquinas, St. (1225–1274)
  • thudong
  • thyroros
  • ti-khau-ni
  • time of lessening
  • Tironensian Order
  • Tironensians; Tironians
  • Tironian
  • Tironians
  • tithing
  • titivil
  • titular abbot
  • titulus
  • toaca
  • tokudo
  • Tolomei, Bernardo
  • tonsure
  • T.O.R.
  • Transcendental Meditation Movement
  • trapeza
  • trapezarios
  • trapezopoios
  • Trappistines
  • Trappists
  • Traveling Saint
  • treasuress
  • Trinitarians
  • tudong; thudong
  • tulka
  • tungshag hakang; confession temple
  • tunic
  • turn
  • turnbroach
  • turning window; turn; turntable; rota; magna fenestra versatilis
  • turntable
  • typicon
  • typikon; typicon; hypotyposis
  • U
  • ubhato-sangha
  • Ugolino's Rule
  • uncloister
  • uncowl, defrock, uncloister
  • undaka-satika
  • undercroft
  • United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
  • unpan
  • unsui; kōun ryūsui
  • upadhyay
  • upadhyayani
  • upajjhaaya
  • upasampada; upasampadā
  • uposatha (Sanskrit); posadha (Pali)
  • uposathagara
  • Ursulines
  • Ursulines of the Roman Union
  • Usages; Usus Conversorum
  • uttarasanga; uttarāsaṅga
  • V
  • vagabundi; vagantes
  • vairagi
  • Valadites
  • Vallombrosan Congregation; Vallombrosians
  • Valor Ecclesiasticus; King's Book
  • vandan
  • Varangghana Vanavichayen
  • vardapet
  • Vassa
  • veghar
  • veil
  • Vespers; Evening Prayer; Evensong;
  • vestarium
  • vestiarius
  • vestivarius
  • vicar
  • vicarage
  • Vigils; Mesonyktikon (Orthodox)
  • vihara (Sanskrit, Pali); biara (Malay); wihan (Thai); kyaung (Burmese); wihara (Burmese); vihear (Khmer)
  • vihara-civara
  • vihear
  • villegiatura
  • Vinaya
  • virgins’
  • visitation
  • Visitation of Holy Mary
  • Visitation Order
  • Visitation Sisters
  • visitor
  • Vistandines
  • Vitalis of Mortain
  • vocation director
  • Volotsky, Joseph
  • Voramai Kabilsingh (1908–2003); Ta Tao Fa Tzu
  • vowess; avowess
  • W
  • Wadi El Natrun
  • Walafrid Strabo (ca. 808–849)
  • Waldensian
  • Waldo, Peter
  • walking place
  • waraji
  • warden
  • warden of the order
  • warden of the shrine; feretrar
  • warming house; calefactory; calefactorium; pisalis
  • warrior monks
  • watching loft
  • westensetla
  • Westminster Abbey
  • White Canonesses
  • White Canons
  • White Friars
  • White Ladies
  • white martyrs
  • White Monks
  • White Nuns
  • Wilfrid, St. (634–709)
  • Wilhelm von Hirschau
  • William of Hirsau (ca. 1030–1091); Wilhelm von Hirschau
  • Willibrord, St. (ca. 658–739)
  • Wimmer, Boniface (1809–1887)
  • wimple
  • windows
  • Wisdom of the Elders of Ethiopia
  • Wolter, Maurus (1825–1890)
  • Wolter, Placidus (1828–1908)
  • Wonder Worker of Britain
  • Wonhyo (617–686)
  • X
  • xenodocheion
  • xenodochios
  • xenodochium; xenodocheion
  • xulon
  • xylon
  • Y
  • yagubhajaka
  • yakuseki
  • yati
  • yogism
  • yokuju
  • yokushitsu
  • yokusu
  • Yosai
  • yugyoso; yugyōsō
  • Yuquan Shenxiu
  • Z
  • zagu
  • zanka
  • zazen
  • Zelanti
  • zelator; geku (Tibetan)
  • zelatrix
  • zendo; zendō
  • Zhiyi (539–597 ce); Chih-i
  • Zhu
  • zhuchi
  • Zoroastrianism
  • zostiko
  • Zuien
  • zutabukuro