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While Eihei-ji owes its existence to Dōgen, throughout history this head temple has had significantly fewer sub-temple affiliates than the Sōji-ji. During the Tokugawa period, Eiheiji had approximately 1,300 affiliate temples compared to Sōji-ji's 16,200. Furthermore, out of the more than 14,000 temples of the Sōtō sect today, 13,850 of ...
Eihei-ji (永平寺) is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the largest single religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples in a single legal entity). [1] Eihei-ji is located about 15 km (9 mi) east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture , Japan.
During the Tokugawa-period the Soto-school started to place a growing emphasis on textual authority. In 1615 the bakufu declared that "Eheiji's standards (kakun) must be the rule for all Soto monks". [80] In time this came to mean all the writings of Dogen, which thereby became the normative source for the doctrines and organisation of the Soto ...
Contemporary Soto-shu has four classes of temples: [10] Honzan (本山), head temples, namely Eihei-ji and Sōji-ji; Kakuchi, teaching monasteries, where at least once a year an ango (ninety-day retreat) takes place; Hōchi, dharma temples; Jun hōchi, ordinary temples. The two head temples or honzan (本山) of the Sōtō sect are Eihei-ji and ...
The ceremony has to be done at both Eihei-ji and Sōji-ji, the main temples of the Sōtõ school, within the time span of one month. [web 5] This originates in the rivalry between Eihei-ji and Sōji-ji. Eihei-ji's attempts to gain dominance were met with resistance from Sōji-ji.
Bokusan Nishiari (Japanese: 西有穆山; rōmaji: Nishiari Bokusan), was a prominent Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk during the Meiji Era.He is considered one of the most influential Sōtō priests of the modern era due to his elevation of the status of the school's founder Eihei Dōgen, the many prominent positions he held during his lifetime, and his almost equally prolific disciples ...
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Gentō Sokuchū (Japanese: 玄 透 即 中) was a Sōtō Zen priest and the 50th abbot of Eihei-ji, the school's head temple.He was part of a 17th and 18th century movement within the Sōtō school that sought to bring the school's teachings back in line with those of the 13th century founding teacher, Dōgen. [1]