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- Dō_(architecture) comment "Dō (堂, temple, shrine, hall, reception room; also shop, store). It is very often used in Japanese Buddhism as a suffix in the name of some of the many buildings that can be part of a Japanese temple compound. (Other endings, for example -den as in butsuden, exist.) The prefix can be the name of a deity associated with it (e.g. Yakushi-dō, a name customarily translated as \"Yakushi Hall\") or express the building's function within the temple's compound (e.g.".