to enrol in a temple school 寺入り [てらいり] /(n) (1) (See 寺子屋) to enrol in a temple school/child enrolled in a temple school/(2) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)/(3) to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)/EntL2191860/ |