A monastic community or convent where monks or nuns live together and share their spiritual and material life according to common rules.
From Greek 'koinos' (common) + 'bios' (life). The word describes communal religious living where everything is shared.
A coenoby represents one of humanity's oldest experiments in communal living—thousands of years before communes, monks figured out how to share meals, labor, and spiritual practice.
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