Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Butsudan (仏壇, lit. " Buddhist altar") , sometimes spelled Butudan , is a shrine commonly found in temples and homes in Japanese Buddhist cultures. [ 1 ] A butsudan is either a defined, often ornate platform or simply a wooden cabinet sometimes crafted with doors that enclose and protect a Gohonzon or religious icon, typically a statue or ...
Chishaku-in temple Hōrin-ji Sennyuji butsuden. The Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kyoto(京都十三仏霊場, Kyōto jūsan butsu reijō) are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture. The majority of the temples in this grouping are part of Japanese esoteric Shingon Buddhism and the Rinzai school.
Main hall or Main Temple is the building within a Japanese Buddhist monastery compound which enshrines the main object of veneration. [1] Because the various denominations deliberately use different terms, this single English term translates several Japanese words, among them butsuden , butsu-dō , kondō , konpon-chūdō , and hondō .
Temple Sect Dedication Location 1 Horaku-ji: Sennyū-ji Shingon Fudō-myōō: Osaka, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Yamasaka 1-8-30 2 Shōen-ji: Tō-ji Shingon Shaka Nyorai: Osaka, Abeno-ku, Matsumushidōri 3-2-32 3 Ebara-ji: Kōyasan Shingon-shū: Monju Bosatsu: Osaka, Sakai-shi, Nishi-ku, Ebarajichō 4 Shitennō-ji: Wa-shu: Fugen Bosatsu
Number Temple Dedication Location 1. Ryukō-ji: Fudō-myōō: Sapporo: 2. Seigan-ji: Shaka Nyorai: Sapporo 3. Konpiramitsu-ji: Monju Bosatsu: Sapporo 4. Kōjō-ji
The buddha, bodhisattva, or mandala image is located in either a temple or a household butsudan. [ 3 ] The image can be either a statue or a small scroll and varies from sect to sect.
Myoren-ji Temple is named in honor of the wife of Nanjo Tokimitsu. An approximate thirty-minute walk from the Head Temple is Myoren-ji, which is another former “Head Temple” of the various Fuji schools which conjoined with Taisekiji in the 25 December 1950 during the proselytizing efforts of former Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda. The ...
Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in (大谷派本願寺函館別院) is a branch temple of Higashi Hongan-ji in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan. Rebuilt after a fire in 1907, it is the first temple in Japan built with reinforced concrete. [1] The Hondō (1915), Shōrō (1912–25), and Shōmon (1912–25) have all been designated Important Cultural ...