Monasticism
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Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
by:
C.H. Lawrence
3.89 avg rating — 169 ratings 2. 
The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality 4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition
by:
Jason A. Carbine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 6. 
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand 4.41 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Popular Patristics Series Book 37)
by:
Mark the Monk
4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 9. 
Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma’s Last Dynasty, 1752–1885 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930
by:
Anne Ruth Hansen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 9. 
Divine Eros: Hymns of Saint Symeon the New Theologian (Popular Patristics, 40) 4.48 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, Series Number 5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations
by:
Reginald A. Ray
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings