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Tōji
Tōji. A temple begun in the year 793 by the Emperor Sammu when the Japanese government moved from Nara to Heian. The name means ‘Eastern Temple’, and it was the counterpart to the Saiji, or ‘Western Temple’. As with its predecessor in the former capital city of Nara, the Tōdaiji, this was to follow the Chinese model of city planning, which divided cities into eastern and western districts, each with a major temple. Construction did not go smoothly, however, and 30 years later the temple was still not finished, and so the Emperor Junna called Kūkai (774–835), the founder of the Shingon school, to oversee completion, with the promise that the temple would subsequently belong to the Shingon school. Thus, it became both an official imperial temple and one of the headquarters temples of Shingon.
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DAMIEN KEOWN. "Tōji." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DAMIEN KEOWN. "Tōji." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-Tji.html DAMIEN KEOWN. "Tōji." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-Tji.html |
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Tōji
Tōji. A temple in Kyōto, built in 796 by the emperor Kanmu when the capital was relocated there. In c.830, it was given to Kūkai to serve as the centre of Shingon, after which it was called Konkōmyō-shitennō-kyōō-gokokuji, or Kyōō-gokokuji for short. The beautiful five-storey pagoda was reconstructed in the 17th cent.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Tōji." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Tōji." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Tji.html JOHN BOWKER. "Tōji." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Tji.html |
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