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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 ...
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 .
Kairō (回廊 or 廻廊), bu (廡), sōrō or horō (歩廊) is the Japanese version of a cloister, a covered corridor originally built around the most sacred area of a Buddhist temple, a zone which contained the kondō and the tō. Nowadays it can be found also at Shinto shrines and at shinden-zukuri aristocratic residences. [1]
A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja, archaic: shinsha, meaning: "kami shrine") [1] is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion. [ 2 ] The honden [ note 1 ] (本殿, meaning: "main hall") is where a shrine's patron kami is/are enshrined.
Jingū-ji – A temple whose existence is supposed to help the soul of the kami the shrine next to it enshrines. [1] Jinja* – The most general name for a shrine. Jinja-bukkaku – Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, especially a combined shrine/temple complex.
The famous torii at Itsukushima Shrine. A torii (Japanese: 鳥居, ) is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred, [1] and a spot where kami are welcomed and thought to travel through.
Shrine hall inside Taoist Temple, Fung Ying Seen Koon in Hong Kong. The line between a temple and a shrine in Taoism is not fully defined; shrines are usually smaller versions of larger Taoist temples or small places in a home where a yin-yang emblem is placed among peaceful settings to encourage meditation and study of Taoist texts and principles.
It became normal for shrines to be accompanied by temples in mixed complexes called jingū-ji (神宮寺, lit. shrine temple) or miyadera (宮寺, lit. shrine temple). [note 2] The opposite was also common: most temples had at least a small shrine dedicated to its tutelary kami and were therefore called jisha (寺社, temple shrines).