MONASTERIES

Monasteries



Acknowledgement

I would take this opportunity to thank my research supervisor, family and friends for their support and guidance without which this research would not have been possible.

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “development of Monasteries through to the modern day” in a holistic context. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Monasteries” and tries to gauge its effect on “religious arcitecure”.

A monastery is the place of prayer, worship, and residence of a religious community whose members are bound by religious vows that cut them off from the world and its distractions and make them economically self-sufficient. Western monasticism is closely associated with Saint Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.550), who founded the Benedictine order and the Abbey of MONTE CASSINO in southern Italy about 529. The architectural implications of the Rule of Saint Benedict are perhaps most fully spelled out in the ideal plan of Saint Gall (c.820), Switzerland.

Table Of content

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

ABSTRACTIII

INTRODUCTION1

1. CHAPTER ONE7

1:1 Religion and architecture7

1:2 Birth of religious architecture9

1:3 Religious architecture (here you should change the title, as its similar to the first)18

1:4 The influence of religion upon architectural forms21

CHAPTER 2- INFORMATION FOR MONASTERY24

2:1 Present text move to history24

2:1.1 Buddhist24

2.1.2 Christian monasteries (monks-nuns)36

CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS AND COMPARISONS OF CASE STUDIES45

3.1.1 chung tai chan monastery (Puli, Taiwan)45

3.1.2 chuang yen monastery (Camel, New York, USA)45

3.1.3 monastery of La tourette (eveux-sur-Arbresle,near lyon, France)46

3.1.4 quarr abbey (isle of Wight)48

3.2 analytical comparisons50

CHAPTER 4: THE FUTURE MONASTERY53

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION61

REFERENCES63

Introduction

In the Christian world during the late fourth through the sixth centuries various strains of monastic life developed, from extreme eremitic isolation to the communal discipline of the cenobia. These different types of monastic life continued to evolve through the Middle Ages. Though most specialists are aware of the multiplicity of patterns of monastic life which are found within both the Latin and the Byzantine spheres, they have been less concerned with what informs these traditional patterns. This paper attempts to isolate some differences in modes of monastic life in eastern empire during the Komnenian period and then to explain those differences in terms of the founders' distinct conceptions of salvation.2 The analysis compares two founders -- John II Komnenos and Neophytos -- and the monastic life led in their respective institutions -- the Pantocrator monastery in Constantinople and the Enkleistra in the provincial milieu of Byzantine Cyprus. These two monasteries have been selected not only because they represent extreme examples of their types, but also because rich artistic and literary documentation survives from both. the second half of the twelfth century. 3 Neophytos seems to have come from provincial farming stock. He was born in 1134 in Lefkara, now famed for its lace production, located in southeast Cyprus. After escaping betrothal he took the habit of a monk at Saint Chrysostomos at Koutsouvendis in the northern part of the island. During his first five years there he tended the vines, a task possibly assigned to him because of his illiteracy and his family background (Wilkinson, ...