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東光寺

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: Tōkōji

Senses:

  • A Myōshinji branch 妙心寺派 temple of the Japanese Rinzai school 臨濟宗 located in Obama 小濱 city, Fukui 福井 prefecture. Its original name was Gyokkain 玉花院 and its mountain name is Gyokkazan 玉花山. Hōrin Esan 法林惠讚 (n.d.), who was the founding abbot, repaired the temple in 1646 and changed the name to Jizōin 地藏院. The temple took on its present name around the time of the sixth or seventh generation abbot in 1740. [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
  • A Japanese Sōtō school 曹洞宗 temple located in Saza 佐々, Kitamatsuura 北松浦, Nagasaki 長崎 prefecture. Its mountain name is Iōzen 醫王山. Its central object of veneration 本尊, a statue of Medicine Tathāgata 藥師如來, was first installed in the Eikyō 永享 era (1429–1440). [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
  • A Japanese Rinzai school 臨濟宗 Myōshinji branch 妙心寺派 temple located in Kogura 小倉, Ijiramura 伊自良村, Yamagatagun 山縣郡, Gifu 岐阜 prefecture. Its mountain name is Fujisan 富士山. A thatched hut 草庵 was built in this location in the Meiō 明應 era (1492–1500) and this was later expanded by Kiun Soken 希雲楚見 (1465–1536) and given its present name. Soken invited his teacher Tōyō Eichō 東陽英朝 (1428–1504) to be the founding abbot. It later fell into disrepair but was then revived by I'an Chisatsu 以安智察 (1514–1587), the fifth generation abbot of Daisenji 大仙寺 in Hosomemura 細目村, Kamogun 加茂郡 (Gifu prefecture). Its central object of veneration 本尊 is Avalokitêśvara 觀世音. [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
  • A Japanese Ōbaku school 黃檗宗 temple located in Shiibara 椎原, Chintō 椿東, Hagi 萩 city, Yamaguchi 山口 prefecture. Its mountain name is Gokokusan 護國山. It was founded by Hagi clan third generation head Mōri Yoshinari 毛利吉就 (1668–1694), who had deep faith in the Ōbaku school. Mōri applied to Manpukuji 萬福寺, the Ōbaku head temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto, for permission and built a grand full seven hall temple 七堂伽藍, inviting eminent Hagi-born monk Egoku Dōmyō 慧極道明 (1631–1721) to be the founding abbot. It is said that at its peak in the Bunka 文化 era (1804–1817) it boasted as many as forty halls and stūpa. Due to the loss of imperial funding because of the Meiji Restoration, it became difficult to maintain the buildings and more than half of them were dismantled. [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
  • A Japanese Rinzai school 臨濟宗 Myōshinji branch 妙心寺派 temple located in Satogaki 里垣, Kōfu 甲府 city, Yamanashi 山梨 prefecture. Its mountain name is Hōgaisan 法蓋山. It was founded in the Bun'ei 文永 era (1264–1274) by Lanxi Daolong 蘭溪道隆 (1213–1278) and was later restored by Takeda Yoshinobu 太郞義信 (1538–1567). Its central object of veneration 本尊 is Medicine Tathāgata 藥師如來 and it also enshrines statues of The Twelve Divine Generals of Medicine Tathāgata 藥師十二神將. [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
  • A Japanese Sōtō school 曹洞宗 temple located in Akadomarimura 赤泊村, Sadogun 佐渡郡 Niigata 新潟 prefecture. Its mountain name is Byakugōzan 白毫山. It was founded in the sixth month of 1382 with Gen'ō Shinshō 源翁心昭 (1329–1400) as the abbot, however, Gen'ō was later ousted by his disciples and replaced by Reiten Sōka 麗天宗果 (n.d.) as the new 'founder' . [Stefan Grace; source(s): ZGDJT]
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    Entry created: 2020-07-03