Re: [tlug] [OT] Harajuku redux - The day Hachiko cried

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Gen Kanai wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:27 PM, SL Baur wrote:
>
> > On 4/25/08, Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Tsk tsk, it's a shrine, not a temple ;).
> > >
> > >  http://www.meijijingu.or.jp/english/
> >
> > Oh, sorry about that.  I always get those mixed up.
>
> All those monotheistic religions, I get all of those mixed up myself.


Huh? I suppose this is about whether a religious edifice belongs to 
Buddhism or Shinto, which has nothing in (actual) English to do with 
whether it's a "temple" or a "shrine", since that isn't what the English 
words mean, but Shinto has a more or less unlimited number of 
(quasi-)deities, and Buddhism has (iiuiac) none, so there aren't many of 
the ones that get worked up about their different one true gods in 
sight. (Parse carefully)

Brian Chandler