Four deputies titled for these structures represented the Maḥdī during the Minor Occultation. One figure named for this structure began his religious career after seeing seven drops of blood on another’s throat, and is buried on Mount Carmel. Salman the Persian is the final person to fill a role named for these structures in Alawism, which comprises a trinity along with the Manifestation and the Name. In the first of a collection of Zen kōans titled for one of these structures lacking itself, a dog replies “mu” when asked if it has Buddha-nature. Vermillion examples of these structures mark places where kami enter into the human realm in Shintō shrines. For 10 points, bāb and torii are words for what structures, through which Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? ■END■
ANSWER: gates [or doors; or portals; accept Gateless Gate; accept mén or guān or mon or kan; accept kahyō; accept Báb or bāb or ’abwāb until “bāb” is read; accept wakīl or safīr or na‘īb until “shrine” is read; prompt on barrier] (Báb is Arabic for gate.)
<Editors, Religion>
= Average correct buzz position