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