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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as monks)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,381 ratings — published 1959
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as monks)
avg rating 4.14 — 400,440 ratings — published 1980
Thief of Time (Discworld, #26; Death, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as monks)
avg rating 4.28 — 78,567 ratings — published 2001
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as monks)
avg rating 4.33 — 279,789 ratings — published 2007
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as monks)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,543 ratings — published 2012
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as monks)
avg rating 4.35 — 842,779 ratings — published 1989
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as monks)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,081 ratings — published 1977
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as monks)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,122 ratings — published 1979
The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as monks)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,923 ratings — published 2004
The Mermaid Chair (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monks)
avg rating 3.23 — 90,370 ratings — published 2004
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
by (shelved 5 times as monks)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,829 ratings — published 1982
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as monks)
avg rating 4.21 — 196,193 ratings — published 2021
The White Cat and the Monk: A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán” (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as monks)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,616 ratings — published 2016
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monks)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,932 ratings — published 1796
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,532 ratings — published 1983
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,164 ratings — published 1988
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.18 — 189,420 ratings — published 2019
Brother Hugo and the Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 3.79 — 659 ratings — published 2014
The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,617 ratings — published 1989
Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,210 ratings — published 1984
The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,954 ratings — published 1986
The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,316 ratings — published 1986
The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,661 ratings — published 1983
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,409 ratings — published 1987
The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,633 ratings — published 1981
The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,582 ratings — published 1992
The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,160 ratings — published 2007
The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,482 ratings — published 530
Narcissus and Goldmund (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monks)
avg rating 4.22 — 74,271 ratings — published 1930
The Beatryce Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,014 ratings — published 2021
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,294 ratings — published 2008
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.15 — 130,820 ratings — published 1986
Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,298 ratings — published 1994
An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,277 ratings — published 1985
Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,772 ratings — published 1981
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.06 — 62,539 ratings — published 2003
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.39 — 398,909 ratings — published 1880
Sanctus (Sancti Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,133 ratings — published 2011
The View from a Monastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 3.77 — 166 ratings — published 1999
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.13 — 343 ratings — published 2002
The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,720 ratings — published 1984
The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,341 ratings — published 1991
Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as monks)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,384 ratings — published 1980
Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations (Volume 48) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 2 times as monks)
avg rating 4.41 — 54 ratings — published 1981
Kevin and the Blackbirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monks)
avg rating 3.94 — 100 ratings — published
Cave of the Ancients (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monks)
avg rating 3.97 — 688 ratings — published 1970
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monks)
avg rating 4.29 — 742 ratings — published 1966
“The monks are not idling away their precious time in the monastery. They are trained here in a peculiar way to develop their moral and spiritual energies and also to see into the mysteries of their being. When all this is appraised in the proper light, we can appreciate the real significance of the Zendo life, which goes on in a.way so contrary to modern trends of thought and actual living.”
― The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk
― The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk
“Suzuki-roshi's students in America were laypeople who practiced like monks. This seemed so innovative, so unprecedented, that scholars and theologians told the students at Zen Center that they were the vanguard of a Buddhist reformation. And Suzuki-roshi apparently believed this was true. He had asked Richard to reform Buddhism in Japan. But seen from Japan, the Zen Center model might have looked like backwards Buddhism. For almost two hundred years, the monks in Japan had been practicing as laypeople. When Suzuki-roshi arrived in America, he inverted the model by necessity; he had to begin with laypeople because there were no American monks. It was a long road from Sokoji to Tassajara. But they got there. They escaped from the world and holed up in a monastery. And then they transformed Tassajara. And it began to look a lot like Eiheiji. During services, the Americans even managed to chant in Japanese.
What was the big difference? The distinction was really a matter of degree. What distinguished the Americans from the Japanese was their determination to sustain the intensity of monastic practice after they left the monastery.”
― Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
What was the big difference? The distinction was really a matter of degree. What distinguished the Americans from the Japanese was their determination to sustain the intensity of monastic practice after they left the monastery.”
― Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
