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.