Gantō
Gantō (Jap., ‘the goose tower’). A tower built in Japan in honour of a bodhisattva who had become manifest in the form of a goose, and who had sacrificed himself in order to instruct Hīnayāna bhikṣus. Thence it became a name in general for Buddhist towers.
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