| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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 | |
| 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… |
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| 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 *… |
Architecture, Buildings, Structures | |
| 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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