Myōshin-ji (妙心寺, Myōshin-ji) is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, which serves as the head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. The...

Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, lit. 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion'), officially named Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺, lit. 'Deer Garden Temple'), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto...

Ryōan-ji (Shinjitai: 竜安寺, Kyūjitai: 龍安寺, The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji...

Daitoku-ji (1315, founded by Shūhō Myōchō) Kōgaku-ji (1380) Myōshin-ji (sect founded 1337, temple founded in 1342 by Kanzan Egen) Tenryū-ji (1339, founded...

school, and by adapting their style of teaching. Hakuin was affiliated to Myōshin-ji and the Ōtōkan lineage, and sought to restore what he considered as the...

Nobunaga's stronghold, she was most likely his legal wife, Nōhime. The Myōshin-ji History compiled in the Taisho period (1912–1926) states that Lord Nobunaga's...

wúshīzhì; Japanese: 無師独悟, mushi-dokugo). They include Suzuki Shōsan, and Myōshin-ji figures like Daigu, Ungo and Isshi. Modern Chinese Buddhists like Tanxu...

in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Belonging to the Myōshin-ji-branch of Rinzai Zen, it was founded in 828 during the Heian period by...

stayed various times at Myōshin-ji and even acted as abbot for a brief time in 1672. Bankei's home base was his monastery of Ryūmon-ji, which had been built...

adult he was about 4 feet 11 inches (1.5 m) tall. His father's temple, Shōgan-ji, was located near Hiratsuka, a city on Sagami Bay about fifty miles southwest...