Editing Monasticism (section)

==Other religions or movements==
[[File:Wudangshan_pic_2.jpg|thumb|China's [[Wudang Mountains]] is a center of Taoist monasticism and the practice of [[Tai chi]].]]
* [[Ananda Marga]] has both monks and nuns (i.e. [[celibacy|celibate]] male and female [[acharya]]s or [[missionary|missionaries]]) as well as a smaller group of family acharyas. The monks and nuns are engaged in all kinds of direct services to society, so they have no scope for permanent retreat. They do have to follow strict celibacy, poverty and many other rules of conduct during as well as after they have completed their training.
* [[Bön]] is believed to have a rich monastic history. Bön monasteries exist today, and the monks there practice Bön-Buddhism.
* [[Manichaeism]] had two types of followers, the auditors, and the elect. The elect lived apart from the auditors to concentrate on reducing the material influences of the world. They did this through strict celibacy, poverty, teaching, and preaching. Therefore, the elect were probably at least partially monastic.
* [[Scientology]] maintains a "fraternal order" called the Sea Organization or just [[Sea Org]]. They work only for the [[Church of Scientology]] and have signed billion year contracts. Sea Org members live communally with lodging, food, clothing, and medical care provided by the Church.
* [[Sikhism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], and the [[Baháʼí Faith]] both specifically forbid the practice of monasticism. Hence there are no Sikh, Zoroastrian, or Baháʼí monk conclaves or brotherhoods.
* [[Quanzhen School]] of [[Taoism]] has [[monk]]s and [[nun]]s<ref>[http://220.178.21.125/xkjyck/uploads/pdfdata/2010/20110315074257325.pdf 全真道是道教发展史上的一个革新派]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://game.dsyd.cn/sywz/qikan/qikan/Shehuikexueyanjiu/shyj2008/shyj20080122.html|title=论宋元道教的社会化存在形态|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130731153002/http://game.dsyd.cn/sywz/qikan/qikan/Shehuikexueyanjiu/shyj2008/shyj20080122.html|archive-date=31 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Way of Former Heaven]] sect of [[Zhaijiao]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gaya.org.tw/journal/m21-22/21-main3-2.htm|title=gaya/佛教圖書館館訊/第二十一／二十二期/關於臺灣佛教寺院調查之出版概論|website=www.gaya.org.tw|access-date=31 July 2013|archive-date=16 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216163041/http://www.gaya.org.tw/journal/m21-22/21-main3-2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Transcendental Meditation movement]] sponsors two monastic groups: the Thousand-Headed Purusha for men and the Mother Divine for women.<ref name=Williamson>{{Cite book|last=Williamson|first=Lola |title=Transcendent in America:Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion |url=https://archive.org/details/transcendentamer00will|url-access=limited|publisher=NYU Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-8147-9450-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/transcendentamer00will/page/n117 103]}}</ref> The US residences for the groups were in Heavenly Mountain, North Carolina.<ref name=Williamson/> There is also a Purusha program at an [[ashram]] in [[Uttarkashi]], India.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/LIFESTYLES03/708110323/-1/RSS|last=Massing|first=Dana|title=TM quiets mind, rests body says Erie man|work=Erie Times-News|date=August 11, 2007|page=1|access-date=7 October 2010|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606224249/http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/LIFESTYLES03/708110323/-1/RSS|url-status=live}}</ref> The Global Mother Divine Organization describes itself as the women's wing of the [[Global Country of World Peace]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gmdousa.org/indigenous-grandmothers/aboutus.html|archive-date=30 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130045613/http://gmdousa.org/indigenous-grandmothers/aboutus.html|title=The Global Mother Divine Organization: About Us|publisher=gmdousa.org|df=dmy-all}}</ref>