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- Title: An Account of the Start of Monasticism
- Author : Henry Ruffner
- Release Date : January 28, 2020
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 582 KB
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The author was led to compose this work, first by reading in the Christian Fathers of the 4th and 5th centuries, some strangely romantic legends of the hermits and founders of monastic societies in their days; —and secondly, by discovering a remarkable resemblance between Christian monasticism, and that which has existed from very ancient times among the Hindus and the Buddhists of Eastern Asia.
The author has bestowed much labor and research on the work, which he now presents to the American public. He has endeavored to make it amusing as well as instructive. He has, therefore, avoided dry and tedious dissertations; he has mingled story and anecdote with solid matter and brought before the American reader in a connected view, what he found scattered in many books, chiefly in foreign languages. As no writer in our language has occupied this field of religious literature, he hopes that the unlearned reader will find in these monks much that is new to him.
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