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Monasticism timeline
c. 420 BC
Buddha introduces a vigorous tradition of monasticism, in the order of Buddhist monks known as Sangha
c. 320
Pachomius organizes in Egypt the first community of Christian monks, at Dandara on the Nile
c. 500
Monks in Ireland live in stone beehive cells on rocky islands, to achieve maximum discomfort
Beehive stone house, 6th century
Fotofile CG
c. 525
St Benedict gathers fellow hermits at Subiaco into a series of small monasteries
c. 530
St Benedict founds a monastery at Monte Cassino and writes a Rule for the monks which becomes the basis of the Benedictine order
597
Augustine, arriving with a party of monks from Rome, reaches Canterbury and is well received by the pagan king of Kent
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