杜

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temple grove

On-Yomi: ト

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 6-10-2007(60): A normal grove is 林 , so in a temple grove half the trees have been removed and replaced by soil (presumably for graves).

2) [dihutenosa] 3-8-2008(2): [+Katsuo] A temple grove may look like any other grove from one side, but when you get closer, you realize that it is very special. A temple grove is for honoring patrons and special people to that temple. Each time someone dies, they are memorialized by first burying them above ground - which results in a bunch of soil piled up, and then planting a huge tree right in front of it, so that the soil pile can't be seen from the front. That way, their bodies are still protected in the afterlife.

3) [perrin4869] 7-12-2011(1): This kanji depicts the creation of a temple grove - it shows servants bringing in soil into the temple, where the trees will be planted.

4) [kapalama] 16-11-2010(1): 杜氏 , 杜撰 , 鎮守の杜 , 杜絶 =途絶 temple grove (#2500 杜) ズ, トウ, ト, もり … Parts: 木 , 土 (cf 社 company (#1092 社)) … Note: Important unrelated usage: 杜氏 Master Brewer … Story:A simple Zen temple grove: A single tree with soil. in the Zen tradition, things are said by what is said as well as what is not said, and things have an esoteric and exoteric meaning. Thus the single tree stands for a grove (exoteric) as well as reading as it it were a forest (esoteric)　.

5) [Boy.pockets] 10-2-2011(): There were not as many trees as you might expect from a regular grove, but the soil of the template grove was meticulously groomed.

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