2. Prior to the Edo period, a Jingo-ji Temple was a Buddhist temple that was permitted to become attached to and manage a Shinto shrine under the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism.
2.神護寺（じんごじ）とは、神仏習合が許されていた江戸時代以前、神社に付属しこれを管理した寺のこと。