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Tō-ji was founded in the early Heian period. [1] The temple dates from 796, two years after the capital moved to Heian-kyō.Together with its partner Sai-ji, and the temple Shingon-in (located in the Heian Palace), it was one of only three Buddhist temples allowed in the capital at the time and is the only of the three to survive to the present.
Tōji may refer to: . Tō-ji, a temple in Kyoto, Japan . Tōji Station, a railway station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line in Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan that gives access to the temple
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
The Twelve Heavenly Generals, also known as Twelve Divine Generals [2] or Juni Shinsho, [1] are the protective deities, or yaksha, of Bhaisajyaguru (Tathagata), the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism. They are also considered to protect its believers. Each sculpture has his own symbol, following the Chinese zodiac signs. The ...
Jain cosmology is the description of the shape and functioning of the Universe (loka) and its constituents (such as living beings, matter, space, time etc.) according to Jainism.
Tōji-in (等持院) is a Buddhist temple of the Rinzai Tenryū sect located in Kita Ward, Kyoto, Japan, and one of two funeral temples dedicated to Ashikaga Takauji, first shōgun of the Ashikaga dynasty.
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One Heavenly Spirit, Lu Zhishen, is represented in a folktale as a sworn brother of Zhou Tong. [1]According to The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling, several popular folktales about Wu Song, a Heavenly Spirit, from the "Wang School" of Yangzhou storytelling, state that he killed the tiger "in the middle of the tenth month" of the "Xuanhe year [1119]" (the emphasis belongs to the ...