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The Fire Temple.
The Fire Temple (火ノ寺, Hi no Tera) was a large ninja temple or shinobi monastery in the Land of Fire that strongly resembled the Shaolin Monastery except that it only housed ninja monks. It was particularly famous among ninja temples.
The monks were led by Chiriku, a former Konoha ninja. The temple was surrounded on three sides by mountains, a large field to the south, and was said to overflow with nature.
There were many statues and images of both Karasu and Yamabushi Tengu, including two statues on either side of the front gates. This was significant as in legend Tengu and Yamabushi taught humans the arts of ninjutsu. The monks had access to a special ability known as the Gift of the Hermit Group.
The grounds of the monastery were surrounded by, under normal circumstances, impenetrable Sealed Iron Walls that had only been breached once, when Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu launched an assault on the temple to collect the head of Chiriku. Chiriku and most of the monks were killed in the latter attack, and the temple itself was destroyed.[1] The only known monk survivors in the great monk purge are Bansai, Sentoki, and Zenza who managed to alert Konoha about the presence of Akatsuki in the Land of Fire.
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- ↑ Naruto chapter 314