

Meaning: a temple
Reading: ジ、てら(でら)
寺院(ジイン): a (Buddhist) temple
寺社(ジシャ): Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines
社寺(シャジ): shrines and temples
東寺(トウジ): Toji (a temple in Kyoto)
国分寺(コクブンジ): a provincial temple established by the state, also the name of a city in Tokyo
お寺(おてら): a (Buddhist) temple
寺子屋(てらこや): a ‘temple school’, a private elementary school (in the Edo period)
山寺(やまでら): a temple on a mountain, a mountain temple
尼寺(あまでら): a convent
清水寺(きよみずでら): Kiyomizudera (a temple in Kyoto)
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