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daiden 大殿

Also daiyūden 大雄殿.

1 A synonym for main hall *hondō…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daikōdō 大講堂 ✓

Lit. large lecture hall. The lecture hall at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara is the most famous and oldest extant daikōdō. The…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daishidō 大師堂 ✓

Lit. great master hall. Daishidō are temple buildings particularly important to the Shingon 真言 sect, established by…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daitō 大塔 ✓

Lit. Large pagoda. A 2-storied pagoda. A large pagoda of the *tahōtō 多宝塔 type,…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
daiyū hōden 大雄宝殿 ✓

Also called daiyūden 大雄殿 or *daiden 大殿. Lit. great leader's treasure…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
Denpōdō 伝法堂 ✓

A lecture hall at Hōryūji Tōin 法隆寺東院 (Hōryūji East Compound), dating from about the mid-8th century, the time when the East…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
dotō 土塔

Also called tsuchi-no-tō 土の塔 or dantō 段塔. Lit. earthen pagoda. Dantō means stepped pagoda. A…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
raidō 礼堂

Also called raihaidō 礼拝堂. A worship hall. When Buddhist temples were constructed during the 7th-8th century,…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
rantō 卵塔

A stone pagoda with an egg-shaped main body placed directly on a base. It differs from the *…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
rinzō 輪蔵

Also called kaiten rinzō 回転輪蔵. Octagonal sutra storage shelves that revolve around a central pillar, which acts as…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
rokkaku endō 六角円堂 ✓

Also rokkakudō 六角堂. A hexagonal building of relatively small scale found at some temples. Like octagonal halls…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures
rokkaku sanjū-no-tō 六角三重塔

A type of three-storied, hexagonal pagoda made in relief on a copper plate in accordance with an explanation found in the…

Architecture, Buildings, Structures

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University