What is the connection and difference between a Buddhist monastery and a courtyard house?

There are 32 famous Buddhist monasteries in Laoshan since ancient times, 6 were built before the Sui Dynasty, 4 were built in the Tang Dynasty, 1 was built in the Song Dynasty, 16 were built in the Ming Dynasty, and 5 were built in the Qing Dynasty.

According to the Qing Tongzhi edition of the "Jimo County Chronicles", before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Buddhist temples in Laoshan included the White Buddha Temple (i.e., the Stone Buddha Temple), the Fahai Temple, the Jinggou Temple (i.e., the Chongfo Temple), the Shilian Temple (i.e., the Chengyang Temple), the Huiju Temple, the Huayan Nunnery (the Huayan Temple), the Haiyin Temple and the Xiliantai (the Hongmen Temple) and other famous monasteries. According to the statistics of 1939, there were still 17 monasteries in Laoshan at that time, including Fahai Temple, Shifo Temple, Dashi Temple (i.e., Shiwan Temple), Huayan Temple, Xiakou Temple, Lingsheng Temple, Qingliangyuan, Yugu Nunnery, Bodhisattva Temple (i.e., Manjushri Fuxian Temple), Huiju Temple, Puqing Nunnery, Linhua Nunnery, Jinggou Temple, Pilu Nunnery, Baiyun Nunnery, Qingfeng Cave and Puji Temple. Among them, there are still 10 intact, 3 dilapidated and 4 inverted.

There are 12 monasteries with monks and nuns, a total of 82 monks and nuns, and 2 sojourners.

In 1959, there were 9 temples in Laoshan Mountain, including Fahai Temple, Chaohai Temple (i.e., Stone Buddha Temple), Qingliang Temple, Bodhisattva Temple (i.e., Manjushri Puxian Temple), Xiakou Temple, Huayan Temple, Pilu Temple, Guanyin Temple and Lingsheng Temple. Among them, there are Huayan Temple, Fahai Temple, Guanyin Temple, Qingliang Temple, the dilapidated Chaohai Temple (i.e., the Stone Buddha Temple), Pilu Nunnery, Lingsheng Temple, Bodhisattva Temple, and the Xiakou Temple that has collapsed. There are 12 monks, 3 nuns, and 5 sojourners in these monasteries.

Among them, there are 6 monks and 1 nun in Huayan Temple, 2 monks and 2 sojourners in Fahai Temple, 2 sojourners in Guanyin Temple, 2 monks in Chaohai Temple, 1 monk in Pilu Nunnery, 1 monk and 2 nuns in Qingliang Monastery. Today, only Fahai Temple and Huayan Temple have been restored several times and are listed as cultural relics protection units in Qingdao City.

Courtyard house is a combination of residential buildings in North China, which is a kind of square or rectangular courtyard. A family living in a closed yard. Also known as the quadrangle, it is a kind of traditional courtyard style building in China, its pattern is a courtyard with houses built on all sides, usually composed of the main house, the east and west wings and the inverted seat house, and the courtyard is enclosed in the middle from all sides, so it is called the quadrangle.

The planning and layout of the courtyard building is characterized by the symmetrical arrangement of the north-south longitudinal axis and the enclosed and independent courtyard. A social network system with the family courtyard as the center, the neighborhood as the trunk line, and the community area as the plane has been formed, and at the same time, a living environment that conforms to people's psychology and maintains traditional culture and neighborhood harmony has also been formed. Taking Beijing as an example, it is basically divided into the gate, the shadow wall, the hanging flower gate, the courtyard, the main house (sitting north and facing south), the back cover room, the east and west sides of the main house are the wing rooms, the main house and the wing room have ear rooms, and there are inverted seat rooms (sitting south and facing north) in the first courtyard that just enters the gate.

Now, it has become a symbol of cultural characteristics and cultural heritage with national and regional characteristics.

Connection: All are Chinese-style (or improved) buildings, with similar architectural styles and institutional functions.

Difference: In terms of layout, the temple has a nave, and the ordinary courtyard house does not.

The Buddhist monastery is like the Forbidden City, and the two sides are symmetrical on a central axis, and the courtyard is just a simple four-sided building.

One is where the Buddha lives, and the other is where people live.

Temple, in ancient times, was originally the name of the court institutions, such as 'Dali Temple' and 'Taichang Temple', and was extended to the official office. In the Han Dynasty, there was a Honglu Temple to entertain guests from all over the world. Later, Buddhism was introduced to China, and the number of monks from the Western Regions increased, so the White Horse Temple was built in Luoyang for foreign monks to live.

This is the origin of the place where Buddhist monks live and practice, and they can all be called temples.

The temple is a part of the temple and a separate house in the temple. Later, Buddhist monks also used the temple as the name of their residence, but the size of the temple was generally slightly smaller than that of the temple.

An antheminity is a place where Buddhist monks (bhikshunis) live.

Buddhist temples, courtyards, and courts should not be confused with palaces, temples, and temples. Palaces, temples, and temples do not need to be used in Buddhism (only Tibetan Buddhism uses 'palace').

Palace, the original meaning is a tall house, in the past, the emperor's residence was called the palace, and later Taoism worshiped the gods of heaven and earth, the patriarch and so on.

The temple is used by the court, the people, and Taoism, and is used to worship the ancestors, gods, immortals, etc.

It is dedicated to Taoism. Therefore, the temple also said that its meaning should include the place where Buddha and Taoism practiced. If it refers to the residence of Buddhist monks alone, it cannot be said to be a temple.