In practice, many Chinese monasteries have also closed their mountain gates to give a cloistered atmosphere to the temple residents.

Moreover, Chinese monasteries, not unlike those of Europe, in many ways were effectively large landed estates, that is, sources of considerable wealth which required protection that had to be supplied by the monasteries' own manpower.

Many citizens believe that the Orthodox church damaged the local feng shui, so they donated money to build a Chinese monastery in 1921, the Ji Le Temple.

Maerth wrote the book in a Chinese monastery.

In Chinese monasteries, the abbot of the temple usually wields the staff during grand ceremonies, symbolizing the hierarchy of the abbot.

He was the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book written in a Chinese monastery that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes.

The practice of Tao Yin was a precursor of qigong, and was practised in Chinese Taoist monasteries for health and spiritual cultivation.

The school's history began in 1958 on a plot of land that was once the site of a Chinese monastery.

Moreover, Chinese monasteries, not unlike those of Europe, in many ways were effectively large landed estates, that is, sources of considerable regular income which required protection.

By chance, Dragon and Shiva had come to the Chinese monastery seeking the O-Sensei's help in reviving a comatose Ben Turner.