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    kami. Unlike a jingū-ji, a miyadera had no priestly clan performing kami rituals in a separate shrine. Also, unlike those of a jingū-ji, monks at a miyadera...
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    Kōfuku-ji (興福寺, Kōfuku-ji) is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples in the city of Nara, Japan. The temple is the national...
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    site of nature worship. Seiganto-ji, part of the Kumano Sanzan shrine complex, is one of the few remaining jingū-ji or shrine temples following the forcible...
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    believed to be the first shrine-temple (jingū-ji) ever. The resulting mixed complex, called Usa Hachimangu-ji (宇佐八幡宮寺, Usa Hachiman Shrine Temple), lasted...
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    Emperor. This is the case for, both, Ise Jingū and Meiji Jingū. Jingū alone, however, only refers to Ise Jingū, whose official name is just that. It is...
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    was made in the 8th century during the Nara period founding so-called jingū-ji (神宮寺), that is shrine-temples, complexes comprising both a shrine and a...
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    Gakuen-ji (鰐淵寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Besshō neighborhood of the city of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The temple's full name is Uryōzan...
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  • transformed into an origin legend of Daigorin-ji (大御輪寺, also Ōmiwa-dera), the Buddhist temple (jingū-ji) associated with Ōmiwa Shrine during the medieval...
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    Buddhist sub-temples. If a shrine housed a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingū-ji (神宮寺, lit. shrine temple). Analogously, temples all over Japan used to...
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    the former Mirokuji, a Buddhist temple once connected to the shrine as a jingū-ji. Usuki Stone Buddhas: Approximately 60 cliff carvings of Buddha that were...
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    Gokoku-ji (護国寺, "Protection of the Nation Temple") is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Naha, Okinawa. Established in 1367, the temple served as a major national...
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    Buddhist sub-temples. If a shrine housed a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingū-ji (神宮寺, lit. shrine temple). Analogously, temples all over Japan used to...
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    Indonesian Archipelago Chaitya, a Buddhist shrine that includes a stupa Jingū-ji, a religious complex in pre-Meiji Japan comprising a Buddhist temple and...
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    by birth who reigned in the 3rd–4th century and the son of Empress Jingū (神功皇后, Jingū-kōgō), later became deified and identified by legend as "Yahata-no-kami"...
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    Zuiryū-ji (瑞龍寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Rinzai sect built in Mino Province (modern-day Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan). It is a branch temple of Myōshin-ji...
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  • reside in devaloka and thought to be seeking liberation just like humans. Jingū-ji were built within shrines as locations where Buddhist practices could occur...
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  • originated from the influences of nearby Usa Jingū, the head shrine of Hachiman shrines in Japan. Usa Jingū, which is located in Usa at the base of the...
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    Ryōzen-ji (Japanese: 霊山寺, lit. 'Vulture Peak Temple') is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan best known as the first temple...
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    normal for shrines to be accompanied by temples in mixed complexes called jingū-ji (神宮寺, lit. shrine temple) or miyadera (宮寺, lit. shrine temple). The opposite...
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    Its name was ranked with the Ise-jingu Shrine, Koya-san Temple and Enryaku-ji temples. Togakushisan Kansyuin Kenkou-ji was the formal name of the Togakushi...
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    Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (category Shrines dedicated to Empress Jingū)
    Buddhism and kami worship in shrine-temple complexes like Tsurugaoka called jingū-ji had been normal for centuries until the Meiji government decided, for political...
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    Sagami-ji (酒見寺, or Sagami-dera), is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its mountain name (sangō) is Senjōsan (泉生山). Emperor Shōmu...
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    Byōdōji and Ōgorinji (Ōmiwadera), temples serving as the "parish temples" (jingū-ji) of Ōmiwa Shrine in Nara Prefecture. Mononobe Shintō Based on the text...
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  • responsible for festivals. Jingū (神宮, lit. 'Divine Palace/Shrine') – A shrine enshrining a member of the Imperial family, like Meiji Jingū, which enshrines the...
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  • called a jingū-ji (神宮寺). In addition, when it is a Buddhist temple functioning as the guardian of an establishment, it was called a chinju-ji (鎮守寺), chinju-dō...
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    again in the Kamakura period on a much smaller scale and existed as the Jingū-ji for the Kokufu Tenman-gū shrine, but was destroyed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's...
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    (Shinbutsu shūgō). If a shrine was also a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingu-ji. At the same time, temples in the entire country adopted tutelary kami...
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    Iwashimizu Hachimangū (category Shrines dedicated to Empress Jingū)
    1868 Iwashimizu was actually a shrine-temple complex (jingū-ji) called Iwashimizu Hachimangū-ji (石清水八幡宮寺) dedicated to Buddhism as much as to kami worship...
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    of jingū-ji, or "mixed shrine-temple complex" with the former Miroku-ji (弥勒寺) having been built on the grounds of Usa Jingū to form Usa Hachimangu-ji (宇佐八幡宮寺)...
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    the Nara period (710–794) with the founding of so-called shrine-temples (jingū-ji), complexes consisting of a shrine dedicated to some kami and of a Buddhist...
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