Gensinism

Gensinism is a religion with an unknown origin. A group of consisting of both scholars and warrior monks, they worship their spiritual leader Gensin and study the true nature of life.

Description:
Gensinism is a religion made up of scholars and warrior monks. They seeks to find the true nature of life and believe that meditation can help awaken it. This religion is considered to be more of a spiritual belief rather than an organized religion. These monks like to isolate themselves from the outer world, and prefer not to be involved in wars and other large events.

Monks:
Gensin members who follow the spiritual practice of Gensinsim. All monks have shaved heads to symbolize their devotion to Gensin.

Elder monks: Higher ranking monks. Same objective as head monks, mostly consist of important figures (founders, etc).

Council: Group of monks. Responsible for keeping the monastery alive. Most of the monastery's responsibilities are taken by the council, technically council members runs the monastery as well as the elder monks.

Head monks: Gensin monks who have mastered the spiritual ways of life. Their purposes is to educate the junior/senior monks with their knowledge. Head monks also take on the responsibilities of running the Gensin monasteries and guarding the sacred temple.

Senior and Junior monks: Lower ranking monks who are still learning and practicing the spiritual teachings of life. They learn about Gensinism in academic sessions and learn about defensive fighting in physical sessions. These monks are religious order members who live a communal life in the Gensin monastery, worshipping and begging the great spiritual leader Gensin for his knowledge.

Gensin:
A spiritual leader who originated in the eastern mountains. During his human life, he was a teacher and a philosopher and the first human to master the ways of Gensinism. Before he died, he took his time to educate and share his knowledge to the civilians around him. Gensin died at the age of 98 and was buried at the Gensin monastery.

Gensin monastery
A monastery for Gensin monks. It is also the place where Gensin, the spiritual leader of Gensinism, was buried. Gensin monks consider mountains as one of the most spiritual places, as they belive that it gives them the ability to focus on themselves instead of the coldness of the mountains. Most of its structures are built along cliffs along the side of mountains.

Birth and Expansion:
The Original Monastery Grounds are located in the desert, east of Market 55 in Yimmu-Audal. It was founded by GamingPwandaYT and this Soon started the Gensinism following and grew to become a Holy site for Gensin monks.

Due to upkeep and inside political discourse, the Gensin people moved to Seivija, Plagatea to remake a new monastery near the Northern Border. But since then has long since slowly died out and the final monk soon left afterwards.

Death & Revival:
Gensinism currently died out around March-June of 2021, its founder died near the age of 100 and time has long since passed. Since its inhabitants have left the monastery grounds, the land was given to a new owner by the name of Rafeldosan and has since been abandoned.

Around Late August 2021, Bronin777 & ELTrojan5116 stumbled upon the remaining remnants of the religion and were able to locate the Monastery after taking interest in the dying religion. They have called it home and are currently reviving Gensinism. Rafeldosan has since reached out to help rebuild & expand.

Expansion:
The monastery was in need of tons of improvements in which were made:

Farms:
There was no standing farm but a poorly made potato farm. with the help and terraforming, was turned into a vibrant land of crops needed for the monks survival.

At first it was originally surrounded by cobblestone, but after multiple errors and tons of weird land masses it was returned to its original state.



Housing:
To house potential Monks and New followers some housing and a Temporary unit were made to accommodate. These houses were based of of East Asian styles and are much newer in style compared to the older housing, but are also roomy. There's talk of making more but for now are on hold and finished. In some of the older housing however there's remnants of the past monks who lived there before the revival. its mainly not to be touched for the sake of them coming back and historical purposes. The housing is built into the hills and cliffs with the original monastery style.



Resources, & Nature:
There was a giant need for a storage unit, originally Made by ELTrojan5116 for a house with her husband Bronin777 until later moving into something smaller. It now serves as a place to meet and collect things needed for the builders. Smelting and a few treasures are also stored here. A tea shop was later made for brewing called the SaiFu Tea Shop. As Gensinists aren't likers of alcoholic drinks, they do make teas and Ceremonial Sake for rituals and such. It's currently ran by ELTrojan5116 and Ambex from Hongan-Ji. There will soon be a cheese making area inside the shop. There's 3 Parks to walk through: The Nether park with the nether portal. The main park with the Resource Hut and a smaller park near the residential and farming. Nature is one of the pillars of Gensinism as the monks do not attack nor hurt wildlife. The wildlife mainly consists of the regular animals, but the Main park houses both regular and Artic Foxes. They were brought from Fornost, Uldarash.

Here also lies the Burial Place of Gensin. Luckily the place has stayed the same (with an addition of some candles and glow vines) Its mainly a place of solitude and to pay our respects to the founder.





Giant Projects:
Currently there are 4 Projects, but most are on hold or being reworked. There will be a Community House for learning about Gensinism, A bigger library, and small rooms for fellow Monks outside of Gensinism for diplomatic relations. This project is currently almost finished. The Warrior Monk Area has been completed by GamingPwandaYT fit with archer stalls and a Ying-Yang PVP area.

A new Temple has been made and Ceremonial Fire has been lit and is used for many rituals; from Marriages to Initiation.

The Ashei Monastery (Formerly the Original Monastery grounds) will soon start Expansion.

Current plans for Heiwa have started and is now under construction.

A 3rd monastery has been agreed upon (pending approval from Frostmarch) and will be the southern HQ for Gensinists alike.

Current Monks:

 * GamingPwandaYT (Elder Monk/Former owner/founder, Head Monk of 3rd Monastery) Council Member
 * ELTrojan5116 (Head Monk of Ashei Monastery) Council Member
 * Bronin777 (Senior Monk) Council Member
 * RegularMordecai_ (Head Monk of Gensin_Monastery) Council Member
 * Rafeldosan (Senior Monk, former land owner) Council Member
 * Serkeru (Senior Monk, Head Builder) Council Member
 * Mikiru22 (Junior Monk)
 * Domovick (Junior Monk)
 * My_precious42 (Junior Monk)