Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name)
5. complexes (buildings and sites)
6. [complexes by function]
7. religious complexes
8. religious communities (built complexes)

Narrower term/s

• abbeys (monasteries)
• double monasteries
• priories
• charterhouses
• mathas [NP]
• wats [NP]
• kyaungs
• mahārājalīlāsana
• mahāvihāra
• muṭṭa

Anotations

Scope note:

Built complexes for religious retirement or seclusion from the world for monks, who are people living a celibate life according to the rule of a particular religious order and adhering to vows, especially of poverty, chastity, and obedience.