Embark on a breathtaking aerial journey across Europe's most awe-inspiring monasteries. From the top-down shots of Bulgaria's Rila Monastery to the sun-drenched setting of Greece's Theotokos ...

It means we’ve stumbled into a kind of post-familial fog — a secular monasticism dressed in sweatpants and matted with dog hair. Today, however, the soundtrack is fading, and fast.

However, do you know that to manage weight, all one needs to do is to go back to the basics, and this is where the Buddha’s monastic fasting rules come into play.

St. Pachomius can be considered the founder of cenobitic monasticism, in which monks live in community. He first started out as a hermit in the desert in the third and fourth centuries, like so many ...

Follow the divine topography of this Greek pilgrimage for monks The region of Meteora combines outlandish topography and improbable architecture to divine effect.

Jalue Dorjee, an 18-year-old recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama, is preparing to embark on a significant journey to a monastery in India to begin his monastic studies.

While it’s true that traditional monasticism is declining in many historic Christian traditions, new monasticism—the contemporary reappropriation of monastic wisdom—is still very much alive.

This scholarly work is a valuable contribution to the overall history of monasticism in Ireland as it explores “the hidden years” of that tradition, following its much vaunted “golden age ...

My word for 2024 was monasticism One highlight of the year was a busy week in a cabin with three friends and a dog.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The Community of the Incarnation, one of the fastest-growing religious communities in the Anglican Communion, celebrated the solemn vows of its first cohort of new monastics ...

Italy is blessed with over 200 cenobitic monasteries dating back to the Middle Ages. Cenobitic monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life, and the monks who lived in these ...