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    Zuirokusan Engaku Kōshō Zenji (瑞鹿山円覚興聖禅寺), or Engaku-ji (円覚寺), is one of the most important Zen Buddhist temple complexes in Japan and is ranked second...
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  • in Japan, he lived at Kenchō-ji temple in Kamakura with Tokimune’s support. In 1282, when Hōjō Tokimune built Engaku-ji temple in Kamakura, he invited...
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    1963 on his sixtieth birthday. The grave he shares with his mother at Engaku-ji in Kamakura bears no name—just the character mu ("nothingness"). Ozu is...
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    his student years at Tokyo University, Suzuki took up Zen practice at Engaku-ji in Kamakura. Suzuki lived and studied several years with the scholar Paul...
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    cover. A memorial to Gichin Funakoshi was erected by the Shotokai at Engaku-ji, a temple in Kamakura, on December 1, 1968. Designed by Kenji Ogata the...
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    artist Isamu Noguchi and movie director Yasujirō Ozu. Ozu is buried at Engaku-ji. Kamakura's defining feature is Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, a Shinto shrine...
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    He was a rōshi of the Rinzai school and was abbot of both Kenchō-ji and Engaku-ji temples in Kamakura, Japan. Soyen was a disciple of Imakita Kosen....
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    Enkaku-ji (円覚寺, Okinawan: ウフティラ ufutira, lit. "the great temple") was a Rinzai Buddhist temple and royal bodaiji of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, in Naha, Okinawa...
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    Kennin-ji (1202) Tōfuku-ji (1236, founded by Enni Ben'en, 1202–1280) Kenchō-ji (1253) Engaku-ji (1282) Nanzen-ji (1291, founded by Musō Soseki) Kokutai-ji (1300)...
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    Nanzen-ji (南禅寺, Nanzen-ji), or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly Zenrin-ji (禅林寺, Zenrin-ji), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established...
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  • August 9, 2024, and was filmed in part at both Tsurumaki Onsen Jinya and Engaku-ji Temple. The video takes place at a bathhouse where Megan lures male gangsters...
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    the Golden Kite. Nagumo's grave is located at the Ōbai-in sub-temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura, next to the grave of his son, Susumu Nagumo, who was killed...
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    Mountains were, from the first-ranked to the last, Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji and Jōmyō-ji. Kyoto's Five Mountains, created later by the Ashikaga...
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  • of esophageal cancer. His grave is at the Shorei-in sub-temple of the Engaku-ji Temple complex, Kamakura, Kanagawa. His former house in Chigasaki, Kanagawa...
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    Disney Resort Kamakura – Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kōtoku-in, Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Meigetsu-in, Hase-dera Kusatsu Onsen Hakone Onsen Mount Fuji Japanese...
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    meditation and building Buddhist shrines and monasteries, such as the one at Engaku-ji as a memorial to those samurai who had died defeating the Mongols. As...
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  • the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013. "Temple Name: Engaku-ji". Rinzai-Obaku Zen. Retrieved 12 May 2013. "The History of the Buddha...
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    two head temples for Sōtō (Sōji-ji and Eihei-ji), fourteen head temples for Rinzai, and one head temple (Manpuku-ji) for Ōbaku. Besides these traditional...
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    Kunimitsu Mononobe is the same person to made the National Treasure bell at Engaku-ji in Kamakura. In 1921, the temple was the first kokubunji site to receive...
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    than those of modern matcha. The tea ceremonies at Kennin-ji Temple in Kyoto and Engaku-ji Temple in Kamakura are examples of the traditions of the Song...
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    1375 by Sekishitsu Zenkyū, who had served as the Abbot of Engaku-ji, Tenryū-ji and Shōfuku-ji. During this period the original temple was destroyed in...
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  • Engaku-ji Hōkoku-ji Kenchō-ji Kōtoku-in Sōji-ji Chikurin-ji Dainichi-ji Hotsumisaki-ji Kongōchō-ji Kōnomine-ji Shinshō-ji Tosa_Kokubun-ji Zenjibu-ji Zenrakuji...
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  • there was none in his area. The next year Nyogen went to Kamakura to Engaku-ji where he studied Zen under Rinzai master Soyen Shaku. Soyen was a strict...
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    Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Rinzai school of Zen's Engaku-ji branch, and was opened by Hōjō Sadatoki and founding abbess Kakusan-ni...
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    by donations raised by Engaku-ji in Kamakura. Although Erin-ji in Kōshū was founded in 1330 by Musō Soseki himself, Saihaku-ji grew to become the leading...
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    recommendation that he study Zen. There he took part in his first sesshin at Engaku-ji, a temple in Kamakura, Japan. Soon after, he met Nakagawa Soen, who persuaded...
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    lord of the surrounding Shimotsuke Province. Ujizane invited priest from Engaku-ji in Kamakura and donated books from his own collection to revitalize the...
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    Uesugi clan. The land where the station itself stands used to be part of Engaku-ji, but it was expropriated during the Meiji period to let the Yokosuka Line...
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    the five most famous Zen temples of Kamakura: Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōmyō-ji and Jōchi-ji. During the Muromachi period the Rinzai school was...
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    three-year period to provide funding for the reconstruction of the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura. This practice continued into the Sengoku period, with control...
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