A bodaiji (菩提寺, lit. "bodhi temple") in Japanese Buddhism is a temple which, generation after generation, takes care of a family's dead, giving them burial...

number of temples including Sensō-ji and Kan'ei-ji, one of the two tutelary Bodaiji temples of the Tokugawa. A path and a canal, a short distance north of...

Gōtoku-ji was established as Kōtoku-in in 1480, and was renamed "Edo Bodaiji" when the entire region came under the ownership of the Hikone Domain in...

Tenkai-ji (天界寺) was a Rinzai Buddhist temple and royal bodaiji of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, located in Naha, Okinawa. The temple was erected by Keiin Ansen...

Edo period. Jindai-ji in the present-day city of Sakura was the clan's bodaiji, or family temple, and has many of the tombstones of prominent members...

lineage associations Ancestral home (Chinese) Chinese kin Guanxi Kongsi Bodaiji Jesa Edward L. Davis (Editor), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture...

sect located in Kita Ward, Kyoto, Japan, and one of two funeral temples (bodaiji) dedicated to Ashikaga Takauji, first shōgun of the Ashikaga dynasty. Its...

she donated a portrait of Dōsan to Jozai-ji Temple, the Saitō family's Bodaiji, after which she ceased to exist in recorded history. In the first place...

founded in the early Heian period, which was the hereditary temple or bodaiji (菩提寺) of the Imperial Family. 86 Emperor Go-Horikawa 87 Emperor Shijō The...

the burned wooden statue were buried in place of Nobunaga's body in the Bodaiji built at Daitoku-ji. Nobunaga first claimed that the Oda clan was descended...

Ōoka Echizen festival is held in the family temple of the Ōoka clan (bodaiji) "Jōkenji" on May. Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, since July 1, 1983 Honolulu,...

principal family shrine is the Tōshō-gū in Nikkō, and their principal temples (bodaiji) are Kan'ei-ji and Zōjō-ji, both in Tokyo. Heirlooms of the clan are partly...

in Takanawa, but on a much larger scale. As this temple became the Edo bodaiji for the Asano clan, after the seppuku Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori for...

Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai. It was the bodaiji of the Imagawa clan, a powerful Sengoku period daimyō clan. The temple...

(高傳寺) is a Sōtō Zen temple in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It was the bodaiji or family temple of the Ryūzōji and Nabeshima clans, many of whom are buried...

after the Enryaku year period). Because it was one of the two Tokugawa bodaiji (funeral temple; the other was Zōjō-ji) and because it was destroyed in...

Kumano Jinja Ankokuron-ji An'yō-in Chōju-ji, one of Ashikaga Takauji's two bodaiji (funeral temples) Engaku-ji, ranked Number Two among Kamakura's Great Zen...

ufutira, lit. "the great temple") was a Rinzai Buddhist temple and royal bodaiji of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, in Naha, Okinawa. The temple was erected during...

relocated to Chōshū Domain and was given the site of Kokusei-ji (国清寺), the bodaiji of Ōuchi Moriharu, the former rulers of Suō Province. However, when Chōshū...

Yoshitsune. The temple gate was completed in 1811. The temple served as the bodaiji of the successive daimyō of Dewa-Matsuyama Domain, a subsidiary domain...

Japan. Its honorary sangō prefix is Kōjuzan (広寿山). Fukuju-ji is one of two bodaiji (菩提寺), or funeral temples, dedicated to Ogasawara Tadazane, the first daimyō...

around 1507 and used by the clan to 1575 Kōgetsu-in, a Buddhist temple and bodaiji for the Matsudaira clan Matsudaira Tosho-gu Kogetsu-in In its territory...

specific family, like the Tokugawa) and were thus known as mortuary temples (bodaiji). Furthermore, during this era, schools like Soto Zen, the Hokke (Nichiren)...

(1599) Chosokabe Motochika died of illness, and the temple became the bodaiji of the Chosokabe family. The present day temple name was taken from the...

Tokugawa Ieyasu and founding daimyō of Owari Domain; however it was not the bodaiji of the clan. The temple was founded in 1336 under the sponsorship of Mizuno...

Tennō-ji (天王寺) was a Rinzai Buddhist temple and royal bodaiji of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, located in Naha, Okinawa. Tennō-ji was the house of Shō En before...

1619, is designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty. The temple is the bodaiji of the Miyoshi clan and for many schools of the Japanese tea ceremony....

followed even by those who followed other traditions, such as Shinto. The bodaiji is a special and very common type of temple whose main purpose is as a...

Tadasada, the founder of the Fukōzu-Matsudaira clan, and served as the bodaiji of the clan throughout the Edo period, even after the clan's transfer to...

15-minute walk from Kami-Suwa Station. Onsen-ji was founded in 1640 AD as the bodaiji of the Suwa clan, daimyō of Takashima Domain; however, as all temple records...