Great Convocation

A Great Convocation is a council held by various monks, scholars and other holy men every ten years in Shinsei no Sumai Mura. Originally held in 44, the Great Convocation was originally designed as a way for the various monastic groups of the Empire to codify and compile tales of Shinsei's wisdom and combine them with Shiba's own transcriptions, creating the modern Tao of Shinsei. Since then, the convocation has been called to update or add to the Tao as necessary.

Major Great Convocations

 * 10th Great Convocation: The Shinmaki Shinseist sect emerged after a monk named Basso claimed to have come upon lost writings of Shinsei that were written immediately before the first Day of Thunder. Calling the writings "the Diamond Sutra", Basso manages to convert enough of the monks present to his side that the sect was born.


 * 12th Great Convocation: The Brotherhood of Shinsei is formally separated into multiple sects, with the new Shintao sect becoming the most predominant of them.


 * 96th Great Convocation: The Pure Land sect is formed, whose members theorize that Shinsei himself was a Fortune.