Saturday, May 26, 2018

Temple or Shrine

Shikoku is famed for the pilgrimage of 88 temples.

I crossed over, by ferry, to Honshu, the main island to learn a bit more about Japan.

A temple is a Buddhists place of worship, while a Shrine is for the Shinto religion.

I learned this when asking a Shinto high priest to explain to me about the Temple. "Not temple, shrine!" He calmly explained.

I noticed that when you see statues of animals or humans, you are at a Buddhist temple. Graves of important lords or priests typically mean that you are in a shrine.
A shrine is more modest, as far as I have seen so far, than a temple.


A shrine


A temple






























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