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.

Table of Contents

• 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