多宝塔
Tahōtō
Two-story Buddhist pagoda
Temples
Tahōtō (多宝塔) designates, in a Buddhist temple of the Shingon and Tendai schools, a two-story pagoda. Literally, Tahōtō means the tower of many treasures.
In Japanese Buddhist temples, pagodas generally have an odd number of stories. The Tahōtō is one of the 7 buildings comprising the ideal layout of a Shingon temple, the shichidō garan.
- In English
- 2 floors pagoda
- Other spellings
- tahoto · tahôtô
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