List of illustrations

1	Manuscript illumination showing Digambara monks walking in a forest
	Wellcome Library, London.
2	Print of a Komusō monk in the Fuke school begging for alms
	ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo.
3	A boy has his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during an initiation ceremony at a Jogye temple in Seoul, Korea
	© JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/GettyImages.
4	Painting of St Anthony’s battle with demons
	© Heritage Image/Age Fotostock.
5	Church of St Shenoute at the White Monastery in Egypt
	Photograph by Stephen J. Davis.
6	Late ancient wall writing by a young Coptic nun named Evangelia
	Photograph by Stephen J. Davis.
7	Tibetan Buddhist nuns creating a sand maṇḍala
	Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
8	Painting depicting a Chinese Buddhist monastery in an idyllic mountain landscape
	Shitao, Light of Dawn on the Monastery (1669 ce), ink and wash painting; image from WikiArt, public domain.
9	Sister Simone Campbell and the ‘Nuns on the Bus’
	Thomas Altfather Good/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.