Monastery (TCG)

There were countless monasteries across Rokugan that housed both the lifelong members of the Brotherhood of Shinsei and those samurai who had retired into the Brotherhood. 
== Purpose ==
Monasteries were built primarily for monks to live, train, and worship in. Routine was important, because it allowed the monks to live in harmony, and it ensured that their duties were performed and their lives were dedicated to the order and its ideals. They wake early, to start the day with quiet reflection before using the daylight hours to work tending gardens, repairing the monastery, copying sacred texts, studying, and carrying out whatever duties the order deemed important. Some orders performed music or dancing as part of their activities, and others included some form of physical training in their routine. At a monastery, food was grown, prepared, and consumed together. The monks of some monasteries were renowned for their ceramics or metal work, while others brew sake. Some monasteries provided services, such as taking in the sick for healing, creating or copying important documents. Product and services were given freely, but usually the recipients made contributions to the monks in turn. The most important part of any monastery was the shrine, temple, or repository of sacred relics. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, pp. 176-177
== A Spiritual Family ==
The head monk of each order was sometimes referred to as an abbot, while the other monks called each other "siblings," "sisters," or "brothers" to reinforce the feeling that the monks had left their old families behind and joined a new one. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 187
== Appearance ==
On the gates of any monastery were quotes from Shinsei alongside riddles to confuse and repel evil spirits, warnings for the impure to keep clear, or kōan to stimulate the minds of passing monks. These were in addition to the torii arches that guarded the entrances to any shrines within the monastery. Almost all monasteries had a gong, bell, or drum tower to mark the hours, call the monks together, wake them in the morning, and send them to bed at night. They likely kept a library of sutras for the monks to study and contemplate, and many also had a scriptorium, where texts were copied. Original texts were sometimes kept in a repository alongside relics and icons deemed precious enough to hide from view. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 189
== Rokugani Monasteries ==
Celestial Cloud Monastery 	
Earth's Breath Monastery 	
Eternal Patience Monastery	
The High House of Light 	
Monastery Among the Winds 	
Plains Wind Monastery 	
Quiet Stone Monastery 	
Silent Ones Monastery 	
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