Bishops of monastic cathedrals, tended to find themselves embroiled in long-running legal disputes with their respective monastic bodies; and increasingly tended to reside elsewhere.

Clerks regular are distinguished from the purely monastic bodies, or monks, in four ways:

The Tshogdu had 150 members, 106 members elected at various dates for a three-year term in single-seat constituencies, 34 appointed members and 10 representatives of the monastic body.

Unfortunately the restorers did not understand this type of church which having been under a monastic body was all on one level.

An annual government grant finances the country's monastic body of 3,500 monks.

It also states that King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck promulgated the Act on the advice of royal advisers, the Bhutanese people, and the monastic body.

The Liverpool Echo also indicate that Ampleforth Abbey was keen to reclaim all of the monastic bodies in St Peter's crypt.

Preserved monastic body.

It belongs to the Order of St. Paul, the only monastic body of Hungarian origin.

This dzong is unusual in that both the administrative and monastic bodies face onto a single dochey (courtyard).