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Chion-in (Head temple of the Jōdo-shū Buddhist sect) Daigo-ji; Daikaku-ji; Daitoku-ji; Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji (Head temple of the Seizan branch of Jōdo-shū) Ginkaku-ji (Temple of the Silver Pavilion) Higashi-Honganji (Head temple of the Ōtani-ha branch within the Jōdo Shinshū school) Kinkaku-ji (Rokuonji, Deer Garden Temple, Temple of the ...
A torii at the entrance of Shitennō-ji, a Buddhist temple in Osaka. In Japan, Buddhist temples co-exist with Shinto shrines and both share the basic features of Japanese traditional architecture. [3] Both torii and rōmon mark the entrance to a shrine, as well as to temples, although torii is associated with Shinto and rōmon with Buddhism.
First settled in 819 by the monk Kūkai, Mount Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.Located on an 800-meter-high plain amid eight peaks of the mountain, which was the reason this location was selected, in that the terrain is supposed to resemble a lotus plant, the original monastery has grown into the town of Kōya.
Kiyomizu-dera (Japanese: 清水寺, lit. ' Pure Water Monastery ') is a Buddhist temple located in eastern Kyoto, Japan. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1]
The original of this map of Eihei-ji took a priest in Aichi Prefecture 4.5 years to paint. Today the temple grounds cover about 330,000 m 2 (0.13 sq mi). [8] The Butsuden (Buddha hall) main altar carries statues of the Buddhas of the Three Times: right to left, Amida Butsu (past), Shakyamuni Butsu (present), and Miroku Bosatsu (future).
Enryaku-ji (延暦寺, Enryaku-ji) is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu, overlooking Kyoto.It was first founded in 788 during the early Heian period (794–1185) [1] by Saichō (767–822), also known as Dengyō Daishi, who introduced the Tendai sect of Mahayana Buddhism to Japan from China.
Hōryū-ji (Japanese: 法隆寺, Hepburn: Temple of the Flourishing Dharma) is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its full name is Hōryū Gakumonji (法隆学問寺), or Learning Temple of the Flourishing Law, the complex serving as both a seminary and monastery.
In 1963, Tamamuro Taijō coined the term sōshiki bukkyō (funerary Buddhism), to describe the ritualistic formalism of temple Buddhism in postwar Japan that was often divorced from people's spiritual needs. [132] Post-war Japan has seen a decline in traditional temple Buddhism, with roughly 100 Buddhist organizations disappearing every year.