Honzon (本尊, "fundamental honored [one]"), sometimes referred to as a Gohonzon (ご本尊 or 御本尊), is the enshrined main image or principal deity in Japanese...

Shingon Buddhist temple in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. Its main devotion (honzon) is Yakushi. Daigo, literally "ghee", is used figuratively to mean "crème...

purposes which houses the "main object of veneration" (本尊, Ch: běnzūn, Jp: honzon), usually a Buddha image. Life in a Zen monastery is often guided by a daily...

to which devotional chanting is directed. Linguistically, the root word honzon (本尊) derives from ancient word konpon-sogyo, signifying a devotional object...

the fundamental teachings in Nichiren Buddhism, which include Hommon-no-honzon (本門の本尊: object of devotion of the essential teaching), Hommon-no-kaidan...

male as a jitsurui deity and the female as a provisional incarnation. The honzon or focus of worship in this rite is thus called "provisional and real devas"...

include what is considered his two most significant works, the Kanjin no Honzon Shō (観心本尊抄, "The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind") and the Kaimoku...

human skulls, which would be coated in the resultant mix in order to create honzon. However, those practices were considered heretical, leading to the sect's...

Shingyō) is chanted along with repetition of the Mantra of the main image (本尊, honzon) and the Mantra of Light (光明真言, Kōmyō Shingon). After kigan and ekō (prayers...

Tendai sect located in the city of Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Its honzon is a bronze statue of Senju Kanzeon Bosatsu (千手観世音菩薩). The temple is also...