روزان-جی
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Rozan-ji (, or Rozan Tendaikoji) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, and the head temple (honzan) of the Enjo (圓浄) sect. The sangō (literally, mountain name) of Rozan-ji is Mount Lu, or Lushan, pronounced rozan in Japanese. Currently located on the eastern side of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, it was founded by Ryōgen, the abbot of Enryaku-ji, in 938 in the Funaokayama neighborhood, south of Daitoku-ji. It was one of four temples that had an okurodo (), a private Buddhist chapel for the Imperial Family, originally located in the Imperial Palace. These temples, the others being Nison
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Buddhist temple
- Named after
- Mount Lu
- Religion
- Tendai
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Kamigyō-ku
- Official website
- www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~rozanji
- Image
- 240224 Rozan-ji Kyoto Japan04s3.jpg
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- located on street
- Teramachi Street
- Commons category
- Rozan-ji
- inception
- 0938-00-00
- significant person
- Murasaki Shikibu
- street address
- 京都府京都市上京区寺町通広小路上ル北之辺町397
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