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  2. Chinjusha - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, a chinjusha (鎮守社•鎮社, or tutelary shrine) is a Shinto shrine which enshrines a tutelary kami (鎮守神, chinjugami); that is, a patron spirit that protects a given area, village, building or a Buddhist temple. [1] [2] [3] The Imperial Palace has its own tutelary shrine dedicated to the 21 guardian gods of Ise Shrine.

  3. Shinmei-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    A building at Ise Shrine Shinmei-zukuri ( 神明造 ) is an ancient Japanese architectural style typical of Ise Grand Shrine 's honden , the holiest of Shinto shrines . [ 1 ] It is most common in Mie Prefecture .

  4. Chhatarpur Temple - Wikipedia

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    The temple was established in 1974, by Baba Sant Nagpal ji, who died in 1998. His samadhi shrine lies in the premises of the Shiv-Gauri Nageshwar Mandir within the temple complex. [5] Surroundings are an important biodiversity area within the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor stretching from Sariska Tiger Reserve to Delhi.

  5. Shinto architecture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Shinto shrine - Wikipedia

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    Before the Meiji Restoration it was common for a Buddhist temple to be built inside or next to a shrine, or vice versa. [61] If a shrine housed a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingūji (神宮寺). Analogously, temples all over Japan adopted tutelary kami (鎮守/鎮主, chinju) and built temple shrines (寺社, jisha) to house them. [62]

  7. Harshat Mata Temple - Wikipedia

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    The Harshat Mata Temple (IAST: Harṣat Mātā kā Mandir) is a Hindu temple in the Abhaneri (or "Abaneri") village of Rajasthan, in north-western India.The temple is dedicated to a goddess named Harshat Mata, although some art historians theorize that it was originally a Vaishnavite shrine.

  8. Senjafuda - Wikipedia

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    The ink used is so strong that after the printed senjafuda are placed on the shrine or temple gate, years later when the paper is peeled away, the ink remains. Therefore, many shrine kannushi or shinshoku do not like the use of senjafuda , as well as more modern practices, where younger senjafuda practitioners do not pray or buy a stamp from ...

  9. Huītzilōpōchtli - Wikipedia

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    The red shrine, on the south side, was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, while the blue shrine to the north was dedicated to Tlaloc. [27] That these two deities were on opposite sides of the Great Temple is very representative of the Aztec dichotomy that the deities represent.