Monks and nuns could be recognized by their habits. Habits were special clothes, like uniforms. They often wore plain clothing, and a cross upon a chain around their necks. Some monks wore hair shirts as undershirts, to purposely scratch their skin and constantly remind them of the suffering that Jesus had done. Monks only had hair at the sides of there heads because when they went into the monastery it showed that they had nothing to hide from God.
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Buddhist monks and nuns did not have income earning jobs as they could not handle money or earn income. Their role in society was to help teach lay practioners but their ultimate job is to attain enlightenment.
Monks lived in an abbey or priory (headed by an Abbot or Prior); nuns lived in a nunnery or convent headed by an Abbess or Prioress.
Monks and nuns do the monks' and nuns' jobs now.
You just call Monks Monks and Nuns Nuns. They don't have any other names.
Nuns were more likely to be cloistered in their monasteries with very little contact with the outside world. As a group, monks had more freedom to live a secular kind of life if they wished.
Monasticism is a life of living apart from society in order to better worship.
nuns
Medieval Churches were important as that is where the townspeople payed their taxes. It is also where townspeople went to pray and attend sermons. It was important to the Nuns, Monks priests etc. as that is where they held sermons and preached God.
Monks - monastery. Nuns - convent.
Monks for education for noble children. Nuns for nursing sick.