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Garan(伽藍) in Japanese is an abbreviated form of the expression sōgya ranma(僧伽欄摩), itself a transliteration of the Sanskrit saMghaaraama (सँघाराम), literally meaning "garden for monks". A Japanese garan was originally just a park where monks gathered together with their teacher, but the term later came to mean "Buddist temple". When the temple's compound consisted of various buildings, it was called a shichidō garan(七堂伽藍seven hall temple).

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  • Garan(伽藍) in Japanese is an abbreviated form of the expression sōgya ranma(僧伽欄摩), itself a transliteration of the Sanskrit saMghaaraama (सँघाराम), literally meaning "garden for monks". A Japanese garan was originally just a park where monks gathered together with their teacher, but the term later came to mean "Buddist temple". When the temple's compound consisted of various buildings, it was called a shichidō garan(七堂伽藍seven hall temple).
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  • Garan(伽藍) in Japanese is an abbreviated form of the expression sōgya ranma(僧伽欄摩), itself a transliteration of the Sanskrit saMghaaraama (सँघाराम), literally meaning "garden for monks". A Japanese garan was originally just a park where monks gathered together with their teacher, but the term later came to mean "Buddist temple". When the temple's compound consisted of various buildings, it was called a shichidō garan(七堂伽藍seven hall temple). The word appears for the first time in documents of the sixth century but, because of the hostility of supporters of local kami beliefs towards Buddhism, no monastery of the era survives, so we don't know what they were like. Thanks to the Nihon Shoki, we do know that an architect, six Buddhists and an image maker from the Korean kingdom of Paekche came to Japan in 577 specifically to teach the Japanese the arrangement of monasteries and temples. The Korean provenience of this new knowledge is also attested by the fact that the layout of Ōsaka's Shitennō-ji is a copy of that of Chongyimsa temple in Puyo, capital of Paekche from 538 to 663.
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