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1		Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages by C.H. Lawrence 3.89 avg rating — 180 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series) by Michael Carrithers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series) by Anne M. Blackburn 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality by George A. Maloney SJ (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		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 score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel 4.35 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Popular Patristics Series Book 37) by Mark the Monk 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma’s Last Dynasty, 1752–1885 by Michael W. Charney (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930 by Anne Ruth Hansen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		Divine Eros: Hymns of Saint Symeon the New Theologian (Popular Patristics, 40) by Symeon the New Theologian 4.40 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12		Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant by Nirmala S Salgado 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12		Four Desert Fathers (Popular Patristics Series Book 27) by Tim Vivian (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, Series Number 5) by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus by Athanasius of Alexandria 4.18 avg rating — 655 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16		Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka by Anne M. Blackburn 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17		Buddhism Transformed by Richard F. Gombrich 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18		Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations by Reginald A. Ray 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

18 books · 5 voters · list created April 1st, 2013 by Jakarta Pundit (votes) .

Tags: history, monasticism, religion

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