Requires
- Buildings:
- Arts:
Enables
- Buildings:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 1440
- +2 happiness
- +1 experience for all warrior monk recruits
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 sou
Clan Effects
- Each religious chain building enables you to sustain one additional sou (to a maximum of 5)
Description
Quiet should not be mistaken for "peace".
Construction of a temple enables the advanced training of monks. The temple itself is a place of solitude and contemplation, the perfect place to consider the world and a man's place in it. The calming influence of the temple and its adherents spreads far beyond the walls. Everyone turns to the gods in an hour of need. In the sixth century, when Prince Shotoku of the Soga needed help to banish anti-Buddhist elements from Japan, he called on the fearsome Bishamon to aid him in his efforts. Prince Shotoku's appeals were apparently answered. Originally the protector of the north, Bishamon became the protector of the law who also guarded people from illness and demons. He was a war god, and was one of the Shichi Fukujin, the seven deities of happiness and good luck. He normally appeared as a blue-faced warrior with a spear and a pagoda representing his dual personality, warrior and monk, but always a protector of the faithful.