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Shrines with other sokushinbutsu can be found around Japan, with more than half the known sokushinbutsu around the sacred mountains of Yamagata prefecture.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

Shrines hosted statues of El Divino Salvador del Mundo and El Cristo Negro de Esquipulas — images of Jesus revered respectively in El Salvador and Guatemala and their diasporas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Shrines honoring the dead at the Zocalo are part of a tradition that blends Catholic rituals with the pre-Hispanic belief that the dead return once a year from the underworld.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2021

Shrines and statues of the skeleton figure - typically depicted wearing a black nun’s robe and holding a scythe - can be found in New Mexico, California, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2019

Note the Richness of Decoration of the Shrines.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin