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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

moved the temple in 1746 to serve as the clan's funerary temple (菩提寺, bodaiji), or family temple. The Hotta clan's historical grave marker is located...

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...

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....

Tokyo, where he resided until his death in 1882. His grave is at the clan bodaiji of Nansen-ji in Nishinipppori in Arakawa, Tokyo. The content of much of...

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

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...

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...

passing through on its visits to danna-dera (the family temple, also called bodaiji). The temple was believed to be the soul's final resting grounds, where...

Awaji Island, bringing his total kokudaka to 257,000 koku. The original bodaiji of the Hachisuka clan was Kōganzan Fukuju-ji (江岸山福聚寺), a Rinzai school...

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...

the public. In addition, Hiraga has a second grave at the Hiraga family bodaiji in Sanuki, Kagawa.[citation needed] Gennai published many works over the...