1. The monastery school (Klosterschule, Scholae monasticae, claustrales) is a teaching institution composed of clergy, which teaches monks and nuns.
2. The monastery school, founded in the fifth century of the Western Yuan Dynasty, first aimed at educating monks and nuns, and later expanded to educate the general public.
3. The monastery school teaches seven arts, or three general subjects (mathematics, dialectics, rhetoric) and four advanced subjects (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music).
4. They trained teachers for later educational institutions, and therefore were the predecessor of medieval universities.
