The reason for the great structural resemblances between the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines lies in their common history. The architectural elements of a Buddhist temple are meant to embody themes and teachings of Buddhism. If many people are involved in a ceremony, it will assume a festive character and will be held outdoors. Religious mass gatherings do not take place with regularity as with Christian religions and are in any event not held inside the temple. There are specialized buildings for certain rites, but these are usually open only to a limited number of participants.

Unlike a Christian church, a temple is also a monastery. Like a shrine, a Buddhist temple is not primarily a place of worship: its most important buildings are used for the safekeeping of sacred objects (the honzon, equivalent to a shrine's shintai) and are not accessible to worshipers. Similarities between temples and shrines are also functional. Honden of the Zennyo Ryūō shrine, inside a Shingon temple in Kyoto

These words are apparently derived from the Aramaic word for 'Monastery' dērā/ dairā/ dēr (from the root dwr 'to live together'), rather than from the unrelated and later Indian word for monastery vihara and may have been transmitted by the first Central Asian translators of Buddhist scriptures, such as An Shigao or Lokaksema. The Japanese word for a Buddhist temple Tera ( 寺) was anciently also written phonetically 天良, tera and is cognate with the Modern Korean Chǒl from Middle Korean Tiel, the Jurchen Taira and the reconstructed Old Chinese * dɘiaʁ, all meaning 'Buddhist Monastery'. 3.2 Four great temples of the seventh century.

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