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From: Japanese-English Electronic Dictionary 和英電子辞書

 寺入り
 てらいり
 noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
 see: 寺子屋
 to enrol in a temple school
 child enrolled in a temple school
 incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
 to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)
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