| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandaradō 曼荼羅堂 | ✓ | Also Taimadera *Hondō 当麻寺本堂. Mandaradō literally means a hall… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| mandokoro 政所 | The administrative offices housed in the refectory of an ancient temple. During the Heian period, and continuing through the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Masodō 媽姐堂 | ✓ | 1 A Chinese temple Sōfukuji 崇福寺 in Nagasaki prefecture, called Masodō, which enshrines a deity called… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| menzō 眠蔵 | Also mendō 眠堂. Sleeping quarters for the head priest behind the main room at a subsidiary Zen temple *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| midō 御堂 | 1 Another name for a temple called Hōjōji 法成寺, built at the end of the tenth to beginning of the 11th… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| mieidō 御影堂 | ✓ | Lit. "image hall." Also called eidō 影堂, goeidō or goedō 御影堂. A temple hall explicitly assigned to… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| mirokudō 弥勒堂 | A Buddhist hall dedicated to *Miroku 弥勒 (Sk: Maitreya), the compassionate bodhisattva of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| moji-etō 文字絵塔 | Sutras written in such a way that the characters form the image of a pagoda. One of the two methods is called moji… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures, Art History, Painting | |
| momitō 籾塔 | Lit. "unhulled rice pagoda." A small wooden votive pagoda carved with a knife. It is related to *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| monbansho 門番所 | The quarters for the caretaker of the main gate of a Japanese temple. These may be attached to or near the main gate. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Monjudō 文殊堂 | A small Buddhist hall dedicated to the Bodhisattva of wisdom *Monju 文殊 (Sk. Manjusri) who usually is… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| muhōtō 無縫塔 | ✓ | Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| muryōjuin 無量寿院 | 1 A name given to the *amidadō 阿弥陀堂, a temple hall dedicated… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| Nageiredō 投入堂 | ✓ | Also once known as Zaōdō 蔵王堂. The Nageiredō is a small building, constructed in the overhang style kake-zukuri 懸造,… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| naidō 内堂 | Buddhist priests' living quarters. Higher-ranking priests had two rooms one behind the other. The inner room was called the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| nanto shichidaiji 南都七大寺 | Lit. "southern capital seven great temples." A generic expression in use by the 8th century referring to the seven great… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| narabidō 双堂 | ✓ | Also read sōdō. Twin buildings in the grounds of a Japanese temple that are of equal length, but not necessarily of… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| narabigura 双倉 | ✓ | Also read sōsō. Lit. "twin storehouses." Two storehouses of the same size placed so that the space between was the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nenbutsudō 念仏堂 | ✓ | A hall within the precinct of a Buddhist temple used for the purpose of training Buddhist monks to meditate on and recite… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| Nigatsudō 二月堂 | ✓ | Lit. "second month hall." A temple widely known for its famous ancient festival called omizutori お水取り in March… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
| nijū butsudō 二重仏堂 | A term that can be applied to any temple or shrine building etc., which has either a double roof, a skirting *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| nikairō 二階廊 | A second story corridor. A corridor of this type is thought to have first existed at Tōfukuji 東福寺, in Kyoto established in… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| niōdō 二王堂 | A building or often a gate that enshrines the two guardian deities, protectors of Buddhism. They are generally placed at the… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| nishimuro 西室 | West dormitory. In the 7th and 8th centuries, some temples had monk's quarters to the west of the lecture hall as well as… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| nōkotsudō 納骨堂 | 1 A hall where cinerary urns are stored and human ashes are kept. |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| nōsashōtō 能作生塔 | A miniature pagoda in a bowl or rotund bottle shape. The pagoda is made of gilt bronze *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures |
Displaying 1 - 26 of 26