From the introduction: The head of the Brotherhood recognize both during one of the councils. An order is dedicated to a shrine or a fortune that shapes their rituals and dogma. A sect is defined by the way they explain the Tao and the mantras they follow. You can so found members of different sects in the same order, as even sometimes many orders in the same monastery. However, usually sects control the monasteries: you rarely seen members of different sects living together in a same monastery because of the differences of philosophy.