WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Within Catholicism, a monk is a member of a religious order who lives a communal life in a monastery, abbey, or priory under a monastic rule of life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Monks and nuns performed many practical services in the Middle Ages, for they housed travelers, nursed the sick, and assisted the poor; abbots and abbesses dispensed advice to secular rulers. But monasticism also offered society a spiritual outlet and ideal with important consequences for medieval culture as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -Viharas were the monasteries or living places of Buddhist monks where religious education was imparted. A Vihara usually had small rooms around an open courtyard and had a small shrine containing a stupa or an image of the Buddha at one end.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Monastery is a place usually a collection of buildings where spiritual activities are performed. People who live in that place are called monks and in the case of females, it is called nun.

Detailed explanation-5: -While most monasteries would be the home to a couple of dozen monks or nuns, others could be much larger with populations in the hundreds. They would also have large numbers of lay servants that would work for them.