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  2. Miao shrine - Wikipedia

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    Miao (廟/庙) are buildings in traditional East Asian religions enshrining gods, myths or legends, sages of past dynasties, and famous historical figures. [1] They are a kind of Chinese temple architecture and contrast with Ci Shrines which enshrine ancestors and people instead of deities.

  3. File:A schematic of a simple Hindu temple showing the sanctum ...

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  4. Garbhagriha - Wikipedia

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    A schematic of a simple Hindu temple showing the garbhagriha sanctum, antarala and mandapa Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. A garbhagriha is normally square (though there are exceptions [4]), sits on a plinth, and is also at least approximately ...

  5. Tokyō (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    An example of mutesaki tokyō using six brackets. Tokyō (斗栱・斗拱, more often 斗きょう) [note 1] (also called kumimono (組物) or masugumi (斗組)) is a system of supporting blocks (斗 or 大斗, masu or daito, lit. block or big block) and brackets (肘木, hijiki, lit. elbow wood) supporting the eaves of a Japanese building, usually part of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. [1]

  6. Chinese temple architecture - Wikipedia

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    Taoist temples and monasteries: 觀 guàn or 道觀 dàoguàn; and; Chinese Buddhist temples and monasteries: 寺 sì or 寺院 sìyuàn; Temple of Confucius which usually functions as both temple and town school: 文廟 wénmiào or 孔廟 kŏngmiào. Temples of City God (城隍廟), which worships the patron God of a village, town or a city.

  7. Vat Phou - Wikipedia

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    Vat Phou (or Vat Phu; Lao: ວັດພູ [wāt pʰúː] temple-mountain) is a ruined Khmer-Hindu temple complex with Champa influences in southern Laos and one of the oldest places of worship in Southeast Asia. It is at the base of mount Phou Khao, some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the Mekong in Champasak province.

  8. Torii - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Japanese Buddhist architecture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...