Do People Go To Buddhist Church? What Do You Do There?

Answer 1

chant the 'nam yo ho renge kyo'
Been to a Buddhist temple way back in the 80s.
A lot of chanting, and banging on a bell that looks sort of like a bowl.
At the end of the meeting, several people got up to give testimonials about how chanting the chant, supposedly made them happy healthy wise and prosperous.

Answer 2

In Zen temples it's usually for meditation.

You go, remove your shoes, and find a cushion or chair to sit on. Someone rings a bell to signify the start of the sitting period, and then maybe 40 minutes later, rings it again to end.

You may then do 10 minutes of walking meditation and then sit zazen ("seated meditation") for another period.

Afterwards there is typically a service of chants, offering incense, and bowing.

They may do that each morning and again each afternoon.

Once a week or so there will be a public lecture, following the meditations.

(And during retreats, they sit as many as ten periods of meditation a day. And take their meals in a ceremonial fashion at their meditation seats, have daily talks by the teacher, do work like gardening for an hour or so each day, and meet individually with the teacher(s) periodically.)
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Answer 3

Buddhists go to temples rather than churches. There they generally light insense and pray to the Lord Buddha, bowing three times in symbolism of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death.
On occassions like Buddha's birthday, they will perform a ritual involving chanting and circling the temple three times in silence whilst holding a burning candle. Absolutely beautiful!

Answer 4

I was a practicing Buddhist for a time. We didn't have church, but we did meet to do our chanting. That was every day, notjust on a particular day. There are many sects of Buddhism, just as there are to any religion. I practiced Neichren Shoshu (Korean Buddhism)

Answer 5

No such thing:
Places of Worship:
Churches - for Christians.

Synagogues - for Jews.

Temples - for Buddhists and Hindus [reason being both religions are from India].

Mosques - for Muslims/Moslems

Answer 6

Buddhism is different to different people. Ten people will give you ten completely different answers. I have been to a temple once. I just went to relax in the garden.