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...

Konshu-ji or Kinshō-ji), the origin of later Tōdai-ji. When the construction of the Tōdai-ji was completed, Rōben became the head of the new Kegon school...

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...

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...

(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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...