Question

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. (10[1])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 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 (10[1])introduced physical training and martial arts. The Shàolín (10[1])Temple is famous as, for 10 points, what kind of place where renunciates become bhikkhus and don saffron-color robes? ■END■

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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John Chen (UG)UBC ASFU4310
Yaj Jhajhria (DII)UW BUBC B10110
Sophie Higgs (DII)UW AAlberta10910

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2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y3100%0%33%114.00
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y8100%0%13%116.50
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y771%0%43%123.20
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y875%0%50%122.33
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2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y580%0%20%119.50
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