sentences:  The monastery, as the place where the required life of abstemiousness is lived under rigorous regulation and discipline, becomes the "asketerion," a word which to the classical Greek conveyed only the notion of a place reserved for physical exercise; while the monks were the "ascetikoi," the ascetics, under discipline attaining unto the perfect practise.Asceticism is indigenous to the religions which posit as fundamental the wickedness of this life and the corruption under sin of the flesh.Buddhism, therefore, as well as Christianity, leads to ascetic practices.