• 寺てら

  temple (Buddhist)

• 寺院じいん

  Buddhist temple

• 禅寺ぜんでら

  Zen temple

• 山寺やまでら

  mountain temple

• 国分寺こくぶんじ

  state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)

• 寺じ

  counter for temples

• 寺号じごう

  temple's name

• 寺内じない

  inside a temple

• 寺社じしゃ

  temples and shrines

• 寺領じりょう

  temple's territory, temple's estate

• 寺格じかく

  status of a Buddhist temple

• 寺中じちゅう

  in a temple, inside temple grounds

• 寺子てらこ

  child who attended a temple school

• 寺男てらおとこ

  male temple employee (esp. one who does odd jobs)

• 寺務じむ

  temple affairs

• 寺請てらうけ

  certification issued by a temple to prove affiliation

• 末寺まつじ

  branch temple

• お寺おてら

  temple

• 尼寺あまでら

  nunnery, convent

• 仏寺ぶつじ

  Buddhist temple

• 監寺かんす

  one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest

• 古寺こじ

  old temple

• 社寺しゃじ

  shrines and temples

• 大寺だいじ

  large temple

• 本寺ほんじ

  head temple

• 氏寺うじでら

  shrine built to a guardian deity

• 当寺とうじ

  this temple

• 廃寺はいじ

  ruined temple, abandoned temple, temple ruins

• 私寺しじ

  private temple (ritsuryō period), non-state-sponsored temple

• 僧寺そうじ

  Buddhist priest, temple with a resident priest

• 副寺ふうす

  one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting)

• 都寺つうす

  one of the six administrators of a Zen temple

• 入寺にゅうじ

  entering a temple, visiting a temple

• 諸寺しょじ

  various temples

• 宮寺ぐうじ

  Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

• 官寺かんじ

  state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

• 脇寺わきでら

  sub-temple, affiliated temple

• 寺務所じむしょ

  office of a temple

• 寺参りてらまいり

  ritual visits to a temple

• 寺子屋てらこや

  temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

• 寺納豆てらなっとう

  natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

• 寺内町じないちょう

  town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

• 寺入りてらいり

  to enrol in a temple school, child enrolled in a temple school

• お寺様おてらさま

  monk

• 古社寺こしゃじ

  old shrines and temples

• 大寺院だいじいん

  large temple

• 檀那寺だんなでら

  one's family temple

• 勅願寺ちょくがんじ

  temple built at the order of the emperor

• 菩提寺ぼだいじ

  one's family temple, temple with one's family grave

• 七大寺しちだいじ

  the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)