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Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau means "shrine at the temple of ʻUmi" in the Hawaiian Language. [2] It is also spelled "ahu-a-Umi", or known as Ahua A ʻUmi Heiau , which would mean "mound of ʻUmi". It was built for ʻUmi-a-Liloa , often called ʻUmi, who ruled the island of Hawaiʻi early in the 16th century.
Before the forced separation of Shinto and Buddhism (Shinbutsu bunri), it was not uncommon for a Buddhist temple to be built inside or next to a shrine or to the contrary for a shrine to include Buddhist subtemples (Shinbutsu shūgō). If a shrine was also a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingu-ji.
Kan'ei-ji's five-story pagoda (photo above) and the Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine were amongst the gems of the old temple enclosure. Both stand undisturbed by the passage of years since the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Shinobazu Pond itself and the Bentendō Temple which stands on its island used to be an integral part of Kan'ei-ji.
The drawing: The group of monuments at Mahabalipuram are a UNESCO world heritage site, about 60 kilometers south of Chennai. The cave temples, mandapas, ratha and structural temples here are generally dated to 7th to 8th century CE. This is the floor plan of the Shore temple.
We know that the temple part of the shrine-temple complex consisted of several buildings, among them a main hall (honji-dō (本地堂)), [note 3] a pagoda, a Buddhist gate and a betsu-in (別院, the monks' residence). [9] The main priest was tellingly called shasō (社僧) or "shrine Buddhist monk", and was both a shrine priest and a ...
The central shrine of the temple is that of Mahalingaswamy facing East. The shrine of Ambal faces the east and is situated close to the Mookambigai Amman shrine. [7] The temple was widely expanded during the Nayak period in the 16th century with the development of twin Mahalinga and Devi shrines. [17]
Central shrine of the Peruvanam Mahadeva temple A Thorana is a gateway within a palisade, visible in the vertical and horizontal structures of the vilakkumadam . In its most primitive form, this construction is seen in the hypaethral temples enshrining trees and later on the outer walls of the shrines proper.
It is the main temple of the Jōdo-shū ("Pure Land") Chinzei sect of Buddhism in the Kantō region. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its mountain name is San'en-zan (三縁山). Zōjō-ji is notable for its relationship with the Tokugawa clan , the rulers of Japan during the Edo period , with six of the Tokugawa shōguns being buried in the Taitoku-in Mausoleum in ...