Tōdai-ji served as the central administrative temple for the provincial temples and for the six Buddhist schools in Japan at the time: the Hossō, Kegon, Jōjitsu...
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these claims is not clear. In 1206, Myōe, a Kegon Buddhist priest who had been serving at nearby Jingo-ji, was granted the land to construct a temple...
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Jōdo-shū sect since the Genroku Period. Initially, the temple belonged to the Kegon sect; then it became a Pure Land temple. The honzon is an image of Gautama...
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(Kannonshō-ji) 33 Kegon-ji Jūichimen Kannon (Ekādaśamukha) Ibigawa Gifu 35°32′15″N 136°36′28″E / 35.537372°N 136.607897°E / 35.537372; 136.607897 (Kegon-ji)...
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Gangō-ji, of a Kegon school but with few remainders in terms of architecture. [relevant?] The Man'yōshū includes a poem attributed to a monk of Gango-ji. This...
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The Kegon Engi Emaki (華厳縁起) or Kegon-shū Sōshi Eden (華厳宗祖師絵伝) ("Illuminated scrolls from the founders of the Kegon Sect"; also translated as "Illustrated...
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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...
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monks. By tradition Nihon-ji was visited in the Nara period by Rōben (689–774), a monk of the Kegon sect and founder of the Tōdai-ji in Nara, and later by...
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River and the Kinugawa River pass through the city. Lake Chūzenji and the Kegon Falls lie in Nikkō, as does the Nikko Botanical Garden. The city's many...
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