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a person who quit the world's noise to argue with God in silence.
means A man who has taken religious vows and lives apart from ordinary society, usually in a community devoted to prayer, discipline, and worship.
from From Greek 'monos,' meaning 'alone' or 'single' — the same root behind 'monopoly' and 'monologue.' It became Late Latin 'monachus,' the solitary one, and traveled into Old English as 'munuc.' The irony is built into the word: monks are called 'the alone' even when they live packed together in monasteries — because the name first described hermits who genuinely withdrew to the desert by themselves, before the communal life took over.
- beer brewers
- Trappist monks fund monasteries with world-class ale
- manuscript machines
- Medieval monks hand-copied books for centuries before printing
- champagne origin
- Dom Perignon, a monk, refined the bubbly wine
- vow varieties
- Some take silence; some never lie down to sleep
- gregorian chant
- Their singing reshaped Western music's foundations
thich nhat hanh — vietnamese zen master who pioneered mindfulness meditation in the west, 1926-2022
thomas merton — american trappist monk and author who wrote the seven storey mountain, 1915-1968
matthieu ricard — french tibetan buddhist monk and scientist with 12,000+ hours of meditation documented