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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	✓	Also written 無方塔. Also *kaisantō 開山塔 or *…	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