Back تيرا Arabic Temples budistes del Japó Catalan Templos budistas de Japón Spanish معابد بودایی در ژاپن Persian Temples bouddhistes au Japon French Kuil Buddhis di Jepang ID Templi buddhisti in Giappone Italian 寺院 Japanese ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံရှိ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကျောင်းတော်များ Burmese Templos budistas do Japão Portuguese
Buddhist temples or monasteries are (along with Shinto shrines) the most numerous, famous, and important religious buildings in Japan.[note 1] The shogunates or leaders of Japan have made it a priority to update and rebuild Buddhist temples since the Momoyama period (late 16th century).[1] The Japanese word for a Buddhist monastery is tera (寺) (kun reading), and the same kanji also has the pronunciation ji (on reading), so temple names frequently end in -dera (voiced) or -ji. Another ending, -in (院), is normally used to refer to minor temples. Examples of temple names that have these suffixes are Kiyomizu-dera, Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in.
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- ^ Mason, Penelope (2005). History of Japanese Art. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education. p. 305. ISBN 0-13-117601-3.