A very different experience for a foreigner, and one that I cherished as a student of Buddhism. If you arenât adventurous, I donât recommend it, and if you go, please be curious, open, and full of respect. The non-sleeping rooms will be very cold in winter, the food served is the food served, without changes available, there are rules about which slippers to wear where and what can be photographed, etc. If youâre interested in deep travel (versus hedonism), you will be gifted and changed. Otherwise, please donât go.