Daitoku-ji (大徳寺, the ‘temple of Great Virtue’) is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located...

the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods and the 111th Head Priest of Daitoku-ji temple. He received the title Zen Master Rōgen Tenshin (Rōgen Tenshin...

 1577) around when he was twenty-one. Rikyū also underwent Zen training at Daitoku-ji temple in Kyoto. Not much is known about his middle years. In 1579, at...

disciple of Daitoku-ji's Shunoku Sōen to administer Sōkyō-ji and Takuan became his disciple. When Kaoru was transferred back to Daitoku-ji in 1594, Takuan...

5 ft 7 in) tall based on a life-size seated wooden statue of him left at Daitoku-ji and the armour he is said to have used. According to Fróis, he had great...

could not be found. In October 1582, Hideyoshi held Nobunaga's funeral at Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto. In place of his missing body, Hideyoshi had a life-size...

Takuan Sōhō, a former head abbot of Daitoku-ji, together with the senior priesthood of Daitoku-ji and Myōshin-ji protested this action, and were arrested...

Gracia also shares a grave with Tadaoki at Kōtō-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji.[further explanation needed] Gracia is an ancestor of Japan's former Prime-minister...

Kyoto to see. His remains were buried at Sangen-in, a sub-temple of the Daitoku-ji, Kyoto.[citation needed] A legend says that Ieyasu showed him mercy but...

Tōkai-ji (東海寺), is a Buddhist temple located in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. The temple belongs to the Daitoku-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese...