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A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of Evangelical counsels, poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 599. The term is often used interchangeably with Religious sister (Catholic), religious sisters who do take simple Vow, vows but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable work. In Christianity, nuns are found in the Roman Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheranism, Lutheran, and Anglicanism, Anglican traditions, as well as other Christian denominations. In the Buddhism, Buddhist tradition, female Monasticism, monastics are known as Bhikkhunī, Bhikkhuni, and take several Eight Garudhammas, additional vows compared to male monastics (bhikkhus). Nuns are most common in Mahayana, Mahayana Buddhism, but have more recently become more prevalent in other traditions. Christianity Catholicism ...
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