What Really Sets Apart Avatars Four Air Temples

What Really Sets Apart Avatar’s Four Air Temples

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, all four Air Temples are shown, but there aren’t many details about the Eastern and Western Air Temples in Avatar.

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What Really Sets Apart Avatars Four Air Temples

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Air Temples are where the Air Nomads reside, but something sets the Eastern and Western Air Temples apart from the Northern and Southern Air Temples. In Avatar season 1, episode 3, “The Southern Air Temple,” Katara, Sokka, Aang, and Appa visit Aang’s home at the Southern Air Temple to learn what became of it during the war. When Aang and his new friends arrive, he is devastated to discover that the monks had all been killed by Fire Lord Sozin shortly after Aang ran away and become trapped in an iceberg. Over the course of Avatar, Aang visits all three of the other Air Temples, though each one is (mostly) abandoned and in ruins because of the genocide that took place during the Hundred Year War.

Before the war, anyone born to the Air Nomad people had the ability to airbend. The nomads resided in four different temples and lived a peaceful life among the mountains and animals. Throughout Avatar, Aang is guided by the teachings that he learned from the monks who raised him – especially Monk Gyatso, his mentor. Aang is a pacifist who believes that violence should only be used as a last resort, and he is also a vegetarian – and much of his culture comes from Buddhist teachings, which also explains a distinction between the Eastern/Western Air Temples and the Southern/Northern Air Temples. This difference is briefly hinted at in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra but has since been confirmed by Avatar’s creators.

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In Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Art of The Animated Series, a book written by showrunners Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, it’s confirmed that the Eastern Air Temple and Western Air Temple were operated by Air Nuns while the Southern and Northern Air Temple were operated by Air Monks. Since the Air Nomads are partially based on Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns, it makes sense that they would live separately – that is traditionally how many Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns have lived.

When Aang visits the Western Air Temple, it’s completely abandoned (and then partially destroyed by Combustion Man and Azula). The Eastern Air Temple is where Guru Pathik teaches Aang how to overcome his fear. Aang has many flashbacks of the Southern Air Temple, showing what it would have looked like before the war, but the Eastern Air Temple (as it existed before the war) is only briefly shown in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Appa has a flashback of the Eastern Air Temple in Avatar season 2, episode 15, “Appa’s Lost Days,” showing an Air Nun handing Aang a piece of fruit to select an air bison as a companion. The nun, Sister Iio, says, “Choose well. A sky bison is a companion for life.”

The Legend of Korra shows that the Air Temples were eventually restored and, though Air Monks and Air Nuns still slept in separate quarters, the practice of separating the two at different temples was discontinued. Each Air Temple is an incredibly unique feat of architecture and it’s satisfying to see them restored in The Legend of Korra, but it certainly would have been interesting to see more of the Eastern and Western Air Temples as well as the Air Nuns who resided there long ago.

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