Recommendations Main Character is a Monk

I've read quite a number of cultivation novels but none of the main characters are monks.
Are there novels with a monk as the main character?

 

Do you mean the MC is a monk or he uses monk techniques ?

 

I liked The Monk That Wanted To Renounce Asceticism .
It's not a cultivation novel but a slow burn and episodic slice of life novel. It's got Buddhist life lessons (◍•ᴗ•◍)

 

Not the MC, but the ML in Copper Coins is a monk (and the MC is a dragon. )

 

Sign-in Buddha's Palm the character starts out as a monk but it does deviate later although monk techniques are still his best.

 

Ze Tian Ji technically. He’s like a priest/monk but not a Buddhist monk or western fantasy-esque priest

 

There’s an old book you may like:

Shike, the last of the Zinja, i read it about 25 years ago, was the first book i read in my life and one of the best books in fact. It directed my early infancy’s taste to eastern culture btw.

May be a bit hard to find it today, author’s name is Robert Shea who is, curiously, an English dude!

Shike story is based into a historical period of Japan (Genpei war, when Mongolia attempted to invade Japan).

MC is a youg monk from an order that kinda of mix taoist/xintoist monks with ninjas (they call themself Zinjas).

 

theres only two I can think of off the top of my head,

The Monk That Wanted To Renounce Asceticism

And

Becoming A Monk In Tokyo (this sadly only has 60 chapters translated.)