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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 ...
Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...
Sculpture inside the temple. Kumbeswarar temple complex covers an area of 30,181 sq ft (2,803.9 m 2) and houses four gateway towers known as gopurams. [8] [9] The tallest is the eastern tower, with 11 stories and a height of 128 feet (39 m) The temple is approached by a corridor 330 ft (100 m) long and 15 ft (4.6 m) wide.
The temple can also be named after the devotee who commissioned the construction of the temple, an example being the Bucesvara temple at Koravangala, named after the devotee Buci. [15] The most striking sculptural decorations are the horizontal rows of mouldings with detailed relief , and intricately carved images of gods, goddesses and their ...
It has been suggested that the Temple imagery represents Jewish hope for the restoration of the Temple and the coming of the Messiah. [44] Another structural depiction, common in Jewish art of late antiquity is the Ark of the Scrolls, a chest which stood in the Torah shrine of the synagogue, and in which Torah scrolls and scriptures were stored ...
A seven-storey vimana. Vimana is the structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India. In typical temples of Odisha using the Kalinga style of architecture, the vimana is the tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the shikhara towers of temples in West and North India.
Sri Vidhya Rajagopalaswamy temple is a Vaishnava shrine located in the town of Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu, India. [1] The presiding deity is Rajagopalaswamy , a form of Krishna . The temple is spread over an area of 9.3 ha (23 acres) and is an important Vaishnava shrines in India.
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 ...