Essential an individual act, communal worship is foreign.

Rest upon the Caste system with the Brahman priest officiating.

Concentrated in monasteries and shrines for those who achieved salvation (nirvana).

Shrines are designed for congregational use.

Temples are distinguished by the extraordinary richness and complexity of their sculptural ornament - regarded as a virtue ensuring a happy future state through successive rebirth.

Jain temple across India.

Jain shrine or temple.

An institution including residences of scholars attached to the shrine.

Main deity of a Jain Temple.

Main part of the Jain temple.

Means "column of honor", it is a pillar often constructed in front of Jain temples.

Commemorative archway pillars topped with horizontal crossbeams buttressed with conventionalized lions.

A system of brackets inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam.

A unified defense system against invasions from the north.

Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.

The first dynasty of China.

Great wall was built under Qin Shi Huan under what year?

How long was the great wall of China during the Han dynasty?

How long was the great wall of China during the Qin dynasty?

How long was the great wall of China during the Ming dynasty?

World's largest military structure.

State religion based on ancestral and nature worship; Japan's indigenous religion.

Main sanctuary of a shrine.

Also called as Shinden.

Ancillary buildings, outer hall.

Treasury room.

The holiest of Shinto shrines.

A square tower, part of a monastery used by Buddhist Monks and served as a temple and housed sacred relics.

Shinto gate.

Purification font to cleanse one's hands and mouth.

It is also called as Temizuya.

Decorative stone lanterns.

Wooden plaques bearing prayers or wishes.

"lion dogs", guardians of the shrine.

Forked roof finials.

Short horizontal logs, common shrine ornamentations.

Encourage building of temples.

Predecessors of the pagoda first created in India.

The five elements.

It is the bottom storey of the pagoda.

Finial (The spire at the top of the pagoda) is also five sections.

The topmost chamber, said to house the Buddha's remains.

A decoration in the shape of a nobleman's carriage.

Nine Rings.

A decoration in the shape of a flower.

The center pillar.

Erected at graveyards or as a memorial stone.

It is a five-storey pagoda located in Miyajima Japan

A Shinto shrine best known for its "floating" torii gate.