a household shrine or niche for a religious idol, an ancestral tablet, or a portrait

A small niche, cabinet, or small room used to house a statue of Buddha or to serve as a Buddhist shrine

A small recessed cabinet or hollow area in a wall used for decoration or to display Buddhist statues and other art pieces.

A niche or cabinet housing a statue of Buddha

a structure or wall for holding funeral urns that contain cremated remains

A Chinese dictionary compiled by the Liao dynasty monk [[行均|行均|xing2 jun1]] in 997 AD; originally titled [[龙龛手镜|龍龕手鏡|long2 kan1 shou3 jing4]], the name was changed to avoid a naming taboo. It is an important historical source for studying variant and Buddhist characters

a Chinese character dictionary compiled in 997 AD containing 26,430 entries; it is the original title of the work later known as [[龙龛手鉴|龍龕手鑑|long2 kan1 shou3 jian4]]

(medical) the shadow of a peptic ulcer visible on an X-ray or fluoroscopic screen after swallowing a barium meal; the barium filling the crater of an ulcer is shaped like a small shrine or niche