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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,” (10[1])which is recited on every new-moon and full-moon day, espouses a set of “defeats” that lead to immediate expulsion. (10[1])Contemporary legends claim that a “wall-gazing” inhabitant of one of these places introduced (-5[1])physical training and martial arts. (10[1])The Shàolín (10[1])Temple (10[1]-5[1])is famous as, for 10 points, what kind of place where renunciates become (10[1])bhikkhus and don saffron-color robes? (10[2])■END■ (10[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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