A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 18 July 2012
So if a person is playing with The Forgotten Temple and has a personality with personal honor who gets dishonored and dies will he lose honor from the personality.
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8094,#hashid=535185de64822840d8dd2453a4e17123,#cardcount=2
http://rules.l5r.com/EE_Glossary_F
From Some things check to see if costs, effects, actions, targeting, or other game procedures come “from” a given source. The source is the card that the effect, action or targeting is printed on, or the rulebook if it is printed there. There are three exceptions: Targeting and destruction by Ranged Attacks come from the card that created the Ranged Attack, not the rulebook. A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi comes from the cost or effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such cost or effect. Costs and effects of traits and abilities given to other cards, copied from other cards, or on created cards, come from the card they are currently on. Effects "from" battle resolution, such as destruction or Honor gain, refer only to the rulebook effects of battle resolution.
We were thinking the honor loss is from the rule book effect and not the card so they would lose honor. Was this correct?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 22 July 2012
So if a person is playing with The Forgotten Temple and has a personality with personal honor who gets dishonored and dies will he lose honor from the personality.
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8094,#hashid=535185de64822840d8dd2453a4e17123,#cardcount=2
http://rules.l5r.com/EE_Glossary_F
From Some things check to see if costs, effects, actions, targeting, or other game procedures come “from” a given source. The source is the card that the effect, action or targeting is printed on, or the rulebook if it is printed there. There are three exceptions: Targeting and destruction by Ranged Attacks come from the card that created the Ranged Attack, not the rulebook. A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi comes from the cost or effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such cost or effect. Costs and effects of traits and abilities given to other cards, copied from other cards, or on created cards, come from the card they are currently on. Effects "from" battle resolution, such as destruction or Honor gain, refer only to the rulebook effects of battle resolution.
We were thinking the honor loss is from the rule book effect and not the card so they would lose honor. Was this correct?
Yes, you are correct. The honor loss from a Personality dying while dishonorable comes from the rulebook. If the Personality has greater than 1 base Personal Honor, Forgotten Temple's trait will still reduce the loss to 1.
Please note that in War of Honor, this loss can contribute to a player advancing on the dishonor track, but that's due to the specifics of the dishonor track in War of Honor.