Myōshin-ji (妙心寺, Myōshin-ji) is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, which serves as the head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. The...
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Ryōan-ji (Shinjitai: 竜安寺, Kyūjitai: 龍安寺, The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji...
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Daitoku-ji (1315, founded by Shūhō Myōchō) Kōgaku-ji (1380) Myōshin-ji (sect founded 1337, temple founded in 1342 by Kanzan Egen) Tenryū-ji (1339, founded...
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Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, lit. 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion'), officially named Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺, lit. 'Deer Garden Temple'), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto...
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Hakuin Ekaku (section Shōin-ji and Daishō-ji)
school, and by adapting their style of teaching. Hakuin was affiliated to Myōshin-ji and the Ōtōkan lineage, and sought to restore what he considered as the...
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Nōhime (section 'Died in the Honnō-ji Incident' theory)
Nobunaga's stronghold, she was most likely his legal wife, Nōhime. The Myōshin-ji History compiled in the Taisho period (1912-1926) states that Lord Nobunaga's...
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Shunkō-in (category Myoshin-ji temples)
Spring Light) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and belongs to the Myōshin-ji (Temple of Excellent Mind) school, which is the largest among 14 Japanese...
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university in Kyoto, Japan that belongs to the Rinzai sect (specifically the Myōshin-ji temple complex, which it is next to). The university and the neighborhood...
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Seihaku-ji (清白寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen Buddhism, located in the city of Yamanashi...
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wúshīzhì; Japanese: 無師独悟, mushi-dokugo). They include Suzuki Shōsan, and Myōshin-ji figures like Daigu, Ungo and Isshi. Modern Chinese Buddhists like Tanxu...
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in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Belonging to the Myōshin-ji-branch of Rinzai Zen, it was founded in 828 during the Heian period by...
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The best known of his paintings belongs to Taizō-in, a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji in Kyoto, which is entitled Catching a Catfish with a Gourd (c. 1413)...
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size 3x3-bay butsuden with a mokoshi however still exist, for example at Myōshin-ji (see photo in the gallery below). In the case of the Ōbaku Zen school...
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secret techniques of his swordstyle. In 1611, Musashi learned zazen at Myōshin-ji Kyūshū after the Sekigahara battle. Musashi introduced to Nagaoka Sado...
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Shunryū Suzuki (section Eihei-ji and Sōji-ji)
adult he was about 4 feet 11 inches (1.5 m) tall. His father's temple, Shōgan-ji, was located near Hiratsuka, a city on Sagami Bay about fifty miles southwest...
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Erin-ji (恵林寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Located in the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan...
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subschools based on temple affiliation, including Myōshin-ji, Nanzen-ji, Tenryū-ji, Daitoku-ji, and Tōfuku-ji. In the 20th century, during the First Buddhist...
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Main Sōtō Temples Eihei-ji Sōji-ji Antai-ji Main Rinzai Temples Myōshin-ji Daitoku-ji Tōfuku-ji...
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Nishida's third grave is at Reiun'in (霊雲院, Reiun'in), a temple in the Myōshin-ji compound in Kyoto. Being born in the third year of the Meiji period, Nishida...
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used anymore, having been replaced by the title Kokusai Fukyōshi. At Myōshin-ji, two kinds of ranking systems are being used to rank sōryo ("a member...
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Book of Serenity. Gentō Sokuchū, the 18th century abbot of Dogen's Eihei-ji, aggressively sought to reform Sōtō from all things 'foreign' and associated...
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Chūgū-ji and Hokke-ji, it is considered one of the Three Yamato Monzeki (大和三門跡), or imperial temples, belonging to the Myōshin-ji school of Rinzai Zen...
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Rinzai-ji (臨済寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, Buddhism located in the Aoi ward of the...
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also known as Inryo-ji, Inryou-ji, or Inryoji. It is a temple of the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai sect in Japanese Zen. The temple was founded in 1632...
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Main Sōtō Temples Eihei-ji Sōji-ji Antai-ji Main Rinzai Temples Myōshin-ji Daitoku-ji Tōfuku-ji...
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the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism. In 1292 he took his vows at Tōdai-ji in Nara, and was given the name Chikaku. In 1293 he dreamed that, while visiting...
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Five Mountain System (section The Ankoku-ji system)
forest below), among them Sōtō's Eihei-ji founded by Dōgen, and Rinzai's Daitoku-ji, Myōshin-ji and Kōgen-ji, which were not under the direct control...
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Kōnanzan (江南山). It is known as a representative training dojo temple of the Myōshin-ji school. This temple was the bodaiji of the Arima clan and originally located...
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Ryūtaku-ji (龍澤寺) is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, Buddhism located in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture...
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a winnowing basket (ji), and scribes used it as a graphic loan for qi (其, "his; her; its"), which resulted in a new character ji (箕) (clarified with the...
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