Temple Names
A temple's name (jigō (寺号?) or jimyō (寺名?)) is usually made of three parts. The first is the sangō (山号, mountain name?), the second is the ingō (院号, cloister name?) and the third is the san'in-jigō (山院寺号, temple name?).
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Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or names:
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)