[Tagging] wayside shrine tag definition page

[John Willis]

There are tons and tons of little singular Budda statues on a pedestal and perhaps a little roof,  and people leave coins, sake, and dress them in jackets. There are also very tiny Shinto "shrines" on the top of mountains (like the size of a shoebox or microwave) that have a spot for offerings and candles and whatnot. 

There are probably several million of these in Japan. Most are not mapped.

To me these are wayside_shrines. 

To me, a building=shrine / temple "enshrines" an object or offers a place for worship of a statue or object. 

My School's temple has a gigantic Budda in the main temple. You come pray in front of it. You can shrink down the building and the statue a lot and still have it be "a temple" using these 2 rules: 

1 - There is (somehow) room for someone to go inside. Basically the smallest building=temple or building=shrine is about the size of a garden shed. It has a door, a person or 3 people can go inside,

2 - the building itself is recognizable as an object itself - unlike the way_side shrine or roadside cross or similar - just a little cover or roof over a statue and an offering box. 

There are many of these small "garden shed" POWs - but they are mapped and considered "shrines" or "temples" by people. 

Javbw

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For example, this Buddhist shrine doesn't seem to have any space or
> cavity (the Buddha is placed on an altar, it seems).