Okay, so the village Maya lives at is the Kurain Village, but the temple visited in T&T is the Hazakura temple. If this was supposed to a branch of the Kurain Channeling thing, shouldn't it be called Hazakurain? And if not, then why isn't Maya's village called Kura Village?

Of course, this could be normal and I'm just getting confused

It's like Canada. Canada is the name of a country, people who live in Canada are Canadians.

Kura is probably a term for something, such as a place or something similar. Put it this way. Kurain Temple is of "Kurain origin" and existed from something a long the lines of Kura.

That's my 10 cents.

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Why should it?

No seriously.

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Does "Haza" mean something like "Temple of the Following kind of Channeling Technique"? If not I don't understand why their names should be similar, and if so it would have helped if you'd said so in your post...

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I don't think the two are supposed to really have similar names other than by coincidence.
I've never played the Japanese game so I don't know what kanji they use for "Hazakura" (Or if they use katakana instead) but if they do, Hazakura means "Cherry Tree in Bloom" which would be a nice name for a temple, albeit strange for one on top of a cold mountain.

It was called Hazakurain in Japanese.

I have no clue why Capcom USA changed it.

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I wondered if that might be the case too, considering Croik's naming of the forums.
Maybe capcom USA thought it would be too long for us English speakers to wrap our minds around, like how they changed Mayoi's name to Maya.

So then my question is why don't they call it Hazakurain Temple if it's of Kurain origin, that's what I'm asking.

It's a Kurain temple, but since it's probably more 'important' than all of those other temples or villages.... they added Haza to it. At least that's what I think.

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That still doesn't answer my question

Direct your attention to

It has more to do with how Japanese locales are translated into English, me thinks :3

In the case of "Kurain Village"（倉院の里）, the -in part of the word is used in the sense of a "school" of thought or technique. Thus, it's fine to have "Kurain Village" since the name does not repeat itself and makes logical sense when you break it down. However, despite the use of the same kanji, in the case of "Hazakurain"（葉桜院）, the -in part of the word is used in the same way as the English word "temple", as in the case of Byodo-in in Kyoto. In order to avoid the needless repetition of the word "temple", the translator probably chose to drop the -in and go with the less repetitive "Hazakura Temple".

In short, I think the translator had a very good and linguistically valid reason for dropping the -in for the English name.

By the way, the AA games are translated and localized in Osaka by the Capcom Japan staff... They've stated that a few times before, so there's no need for all the Capcom USA or Capcom Europe hate. Just saying let's turn the flames down a bit, ja?

Alright, I think I get it. Thanks everybody