Solitude and compassion are central to both Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Starting from a lack of comparative approaches on the subject in the scientific literature, this qualitative research investigates the way monks in an Orthodox monastery from Romania, and those living in a monastery from Japan, live and understand solitude and compassion. Ethnography and semi-structured interviews will reveal the way generosity (as a result of compassion) may be achieved during isolation.

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