"temple compound" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area containing a temple. For example, "We arrived at the ancient temple compound and were awestruck by its grandeur."
A6 Gunmen Attack Indian Temple An attack on a heavily fortified Hindu temple compound in northern India left six gunmen dead and raised the specter of new sectarian violence.
"In Kyoto I lived in the Rinzai Zen temple compound of Shokoku-ji.
The temple compound was not devoid of people, but this was a different sort of crowd.
In the main temple compound, he said, worshipers lighted yak butter lamps, and "the mood was very, very quiet and solemn".
So, with the sun streaming into the temple compound and the beating of the ocean in the distance, that is exactly what I did.
It was after viewing some of Belzoni's loot in 1817 that Shelley wrote "Ozymandias," the name the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus used when discussing the largest of the statues at Thebes, which lay in broken pieces before the temple compound.
From that time a practice developed of building Shintō shrines in Buddhist temple compounds and temples or pagodas near Shintō shrines, and also of reciting Buddhist scriptures at Shintō shrines.
For centuries, explorations of Angkor had been preoccupied with the temple compounds themselves, focusing on the religious symbolism of the structures and the cosmological worlds depicted in their intricate bas reliefs.
There are distant views of Mount Fuji and a close-up of horses' behinds; serene temple compounds and the busy patterns of women's clothes; earthlings and winged creatures like eagles and egrets; festivals, fireworks, pageants and performances.
The shehnai of northern India, a conical oboe with a metal bell and six to eight finger holes, was traditionally associated with outdoor performance and largely with folk music; it is now played on the concert stage and in temple compounds.
The morning had been filled with a slow walking tour of Chiang Mai's old city temple compounds and the midday heat was intensifying. Blue sky scrolled out of sight, and a crowd of bobbing, sweaty brows and tired smiles came into view.
