| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| jibutsudō 持仏堂 | Also called *butsuma 仏間. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jikidō 食堂 | Also called saidō 斎堂. A refectory. An independent building on temple grounds where priests and monks had their… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jingūji 神宮寺 | Also called jingoji 神護寺, jingū'in 神宮院, jinganji 神願寺, miyadera 宮寺, or bettōji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jizōdō 地蔵堂 | ✓ | A temple hall where the Buddhist deity *Jizō 地蔵 (Sk. Ksitigarbha) is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Jōdodō 浄土堂 | Lit. Pure Land Hall. The main hall of the Shingon 真言 sect temple of Jōdoji 浄土寺 in Hyōgo Prefecture, dedicated to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jōgyōdō 常行堂 | Also called jōgyō sanmaidō 常行三昧堂. A hall where a devotee walks around a statue of the *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| jūbō 住房 | The earliest (6th-12th century) Buddhist living quarters for priests' and monks. Arranged outside the sacred area containing… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Jūjūtō 十重塔 | A unique, ten-story stone pagoda *sekitō 石塔 at Injōji 引接寺(1386) in Kyoto.… |
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| jūsanjū-no-tō 十三重の塔 | ✓ | A thirteen-storied pagoda. The only wooden thirteen-storied pagoda extant is located at Danzan Jinja 談山神社 (1532) in Nara.… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tahōtō 多宝塔 | ✓ | A 2-storied pagoda that developed from the circular, roofed one called *hōtō 宝塔… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| taibō 大房 | Also pronounced daibō. A large room 6.7 m wide and 12.7 m deep, constructed in a style customary from about the mid… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| taishidō 太子堂 | A hall either dedicated to Shōtoku Taishi 聖徳太子 (ca. 574-622), the second son of Emperor Yōmei 用明 (r. 585-87), or a building… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tanrō 単廊 | A single corridor that is 182 cm wide, commonly found in temples. Some shrines have double corridors *… |
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| tasōtō 多層塔 | ✓ | Also called tajūtō 多重塔. A generic term for pagodas that are from three to thirteen stories. An even number of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tatchū 塔頭 | Also written 塔中. A simple building containing a pagoda that enshrined the ashes of a founder or head priest of a Zen 禅… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Tatekaketō 建掛塔 | Lit. "under construction pagoda." A pagoda at Kanshinji 観心寺 in Osaka that has only its first story. Kusunoki Masashige 楠木正成… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tō 塔 | Also called tōba 塔婆, sotoba 卒都婆 or *tasōtō 多層塔 (many-layered… |
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| Tōgudō 東求堂 | Lit. "east seeking hall." A small building at Jishōji 慈照寺, also popularly known as Ginkakuji 銀閣寺 (1485), Kyoto, built by… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tōkondō 東金堂 | Also originally called higashi butsuden'in 東仏殿院. A worship hall placed to the east of the pagoda *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tōshin 塔身 | The framework of a pagoda *tō 塔, excluding the roof *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tōsu 東司 | ✓ | Also read tōshi. Originally tōsu was the god of the latrine who was also called fujō kongō… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| tōtō 東塔 | Lit. "east pagoda." A pagoda located toward the front and on the east side of a temple's precinct grounds. When there are… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| tsujidō 辻堂 | Lit. "cross roads hall." A small Buddhist structure erected at the main intersection of a village, along a village road, or… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Tsumamuro 妻室 | ✓ | The dormitory for ordinary attendant monks at Hōryūji 法隆寺 in Nara. The present Tsumamuro was constructed in the Heian period… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
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