Temple-going

Alternative forms

• templegoing

Origin

temple + going

Full definition of temple-going

Adjective

1. Regularly attending a temple, particularly a Hindu, Jain, Buddhist or Jewish temple.
• 2006, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 236:We need an approach that allows Jesus to articulate a message that can be reasonably attributed to a temple-going Jewish person of the first century CE.
• 2013, Steven Vertovec, The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns, Page 132Although the study of Hindu temple rituals and templegoing is ...
• 2011, Pankaj Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu CommunitiesEven the temple-going Jains know that the Jain ideal is to renounce householder life and to follow the path of their role models such as Mahavira
• 2004, Allan Kaprow, Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, Page 199The temple-going Zen religious sects

Noun

1. (uncommon) The practice of regularly attending a temple.