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A ritual at one of these places involves drawing a small amount of water each year and adding it to a mixture from all previous years. Propagandists claim that objects made of human skin found at these places are evidence that they practiced slavery. During a rain retreat, people may not leave these places unless explicitly invited by a host. A set of rules of conduct in these places termed “near-liberation,” which is recited on every (-5[1])new-moon and full-moon day, espouses a set of “defeats” that lead to immediate expulsion. Contemporary legends claim that a “wall-gazing” inhabitant of one of these places introduced physical training and martial arts. The (10[1])Shàolín Temple (10[1])is famous (-5[1])as, (-5[2])for 10 points, what kind of place where renunciates become bhikkhus and don saffron-color robes? ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: Buddhist monastery [accept vihāra or wat or gompa or kyaung or tera or Chǒl; accept Theravada monastery or Zen monastery or Tibetan Buddhist monastery; accept Shàolín temple; prompt on Buddhist temple; prompt on monastery by asking “of what religion?”]
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