English

Alternative forms

• templegoing

Adjective

temple-going ‎(not comparable)

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 132

     Although the study of Hindu temple rituals and templegoing is […]

   • 2011, Pankaj Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

     Even 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 199

     The temple-going Zen religious sects

Noun

temple-going ‎(uncountable)

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