Eihei-ji Temple
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right|250px is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the largest single religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples in a single legal entity). The other is Sōji-ji in Yokohama. Eihei-ji is located about east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means "temple of eternal peace" (in Japanese, 'ei' means "eternal", 'hei' means "peaceful", and 'ji' means "Buddhist temple").
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Eihei-ji永平寺
- Religious building.image
- Eiheiji08bs3200.jpg
- Religious building.map_type
- Japan Fukui Prefecture#Japan
- Religious building.relief
- 1
- Religious building.map_caption
- Eihei-ji
- Religious building.location
- 5-15 Shihi, Eiheiji-chō, Yoshida District, Fukui Prefecture
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Buddhism
- Religious building.rite
- Sōtō Zen
- Religious building.deity
- Shaka Nyorai (Śākyamuni)Miroku Butsu (Maitreya)Amida Nyorai (Amitābha)
- Religious building.country
- Japan
- Religious building.functional_status
- Head Temple
- Religious building.founded_by
- Dōgen
- Religious building.year_completed
- 1244
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Buddhist temple
- Religion
- Sōtō
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Eiheiji
- Dedicated to
- Shakyamuni Tathāgata
- Official website
- daihonzan-eiheiji.com/cn
- Image
- Joyomon of Eiheiji in September 2024.jpg
- Has parts of class
- Dharma Hall
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- heritage designation
- Important Cultural Property of Japan
- inception
- 1244-00-00
- postal code
- 910-1228
- street address
- 福井県吉田郡永平寺町志比５−１５ 大本山永平寺
- phone number
- +81-776-63-3188
- native label
- 永平寺
- name in kana
- えいへいじ
- Commons category
- Eiheiji
- fax number
- +81-776-63-3631
- closed on
- January 1
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Encyclopedic overview
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right|250px is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the largest single religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples in a single legal entity). The other is Sōji-ji in Yokohama. Eihei-ji is located about east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means "temple of eternal peace" (in Japanese, 'ei' means "eternal", 'hei' means "peaceful", and 'ji' means "Buddhist temple").
Its founder was Eihei Dōgen, who brought Sōtō Zen from China to Japan during the 13th century. The ashes of Dōgen and a memorial to him are in the Jōyōden (the Founder's Hall) at Eihei-ji. William Bodiford of UCLA writes that, "The rural monastery Eiheiji in particular aggrandized Dōgen to bolster its own authority vis-à-vis its institutional rivals within the Sōtō denomination."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eihei-ji Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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