repository:
(plural: ‘repositories‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person to whom secrets or highly confidential information is given for safe keeping,
a Buddhist repository
David, the oldest member of our secret club, is a repository who has the most knowledge of the day to day affairs of the club.
In the past most of the secretes of a sect were given to some wise and trust-worthy members, the sacred repositories of the sect, who later became priests, and revealed those secrets in the form of sermons and morals to the others.
It’s believed that the ancient Japanese Buddhist monks formulated some very effective fighting movements, like ‘karate’ for instance, to be used by the monks only for self-defence, and taught those movements to a few chosen ones who later became the repositories of the art of self-defence and, later, they in turn, taught to some more until the art became known to everybody.
