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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

secret techniques of his swordstyle. In 1611, Musashi learned zazen at Myōshin-ji Kyūshū after the Sekigahara battle. Musashi introduced to Nagaoka Sado...

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...

size 3x3-bay butsuden with a mokoshi however still exist, for example at Myōshin-ji (see photo in the gallery below). In the case of the Ōbaku Zen school...

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...

The best known of his paintings belongs to Taizō-in, a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji in Kyoto, which is entitled Catching a Catfish with a Gourd (c. 1413)...

used anymore, having been replaced by the title Kokusai Fukyōshi. At Myōshin-ji, two kinds of ranking systems are being used to rank sōryo ("a member...

Seiken-ji (清見寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, located in the Okitsu neighborhood of Shimizu-ku...

university in Kyoto, Japan that belongs to the Rinzai sect (specifically the Myōshin-ji temple complex, which it is next to). The university and the neighborhood...

Spring Light) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and belongs to the Myōshin-ji (Temple of Excellent Mind) school, which is the largest among 14 Japanese...

Book of Serenity. Gentō Sokuchū, the 18th century abbot of Dogen's Eihei-ji, aggressively sought to reform Sōtō from all things 'foreign' and associated...

Seihaku-ji (清白寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen Buddhism, located in the city of Yamanashi...

subschools based on temple affiliation, including Myōshin-ji, Nanzen-ji, Tenryū-ji, Daitoku-ji, and Tōfuku-ji. In the 20th century, during the First Buddhist...

Rinzai-ji (Japanese: 臨済寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, Buddhism located in the Aoi ward...

Nishida's third grave is at Reiun'in (霊雲院, Reiun'in), a temple in the Myōshin-ji compound in Kyoto. Being born in the third year of the Meiji period, Nishida...

Erin-ji (恵林寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Located in the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan...

forest below), among them Sōtō's Eihei-ji founded by Dōgen, and Rinzai's Daitoku-ji, Myōshin-ji and Kōgen-ji, which were not under the direct control...

An'yō-in Garden of Taisan-ji in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Rosan-ji garden Adachi Museum of Art Taizō-in, Myōshin-ji, in Kyoto KōmyōZen-ji Jissō-in, in Kyoto (Iwakura)...

Huike. The Record of the Masters and Students of the Laṅka (Léngqié Shīzī Jì 楞伽師資記), which survives both in Chinese and in Tibetan translation (although...

teachers. "Lower" level is referred to as Ji Do Poep Sa Nim, or Dharma master (jido beopsa-nim; 지도법사님; 指導法師님). Ji Do Poep Sa Nim is a person who has received...

was executed in c. 1415 and is held by Taizō-in, a sub-temple of the Myōshin-ji complex of Zen Buddhist temples in Kyoto. It is one of the earliest suiboku...

Enkei-zan (遠景山). The temple belongs to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Sōken-ji was erected within the grounds of Azuchi Castle...

a winnowing basket (ji), and scribes used it as a graphic loan for qi (其, "his; her; its"), which resulted in a new character ji (箕) (clarified with the...