Main Hall (Japanese Buddhism)
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This article is about the Main Hall in Japanese Buddhist temple. For the Main Hall in Chinese Buddhist temple, see Mahavira Hall.
Main hall or Main Temple is the building within a Japanese Buddhist monastery compound (garan) which enshrines the main object of veneration.[1] Because the various denominations deliberately use different terms, this single English term translates several Japanese words, among them butsuden, butsu-dō, kondō, konpon-chūdō, and hondō. Hondō is its exact Japanese equivalent, while the others are more specialized words used by particular sects or for edifices having a particular structure.