Higashi Honganji

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Higashi Honganji - Founder's Hall Gate (Goei-do Mno), built in 1911, with 31 m (103 ft) x height 27 m (90 ft), 59,387 roof files
Higashi Honganji - Founder's Hall Gate (Goei-do Mno), built in 1911, with 31 m (103 ft) x height 27 m (90 ft), 59,387 roof files

Higashi Honganji (or, 'The Eastern Temple of the Original Vow') is one of two dominant sub-sects of Shin Buddhism in Japan and abroad, the other being Nishi Honganji (or, 'The Western Temple of the Original Vow'). The Higashi Honganji (also Shinshu Otaniha) sect has approximately 5.5 million members, according to statistics.[1]

Higashi Honganji was established in 1602 by the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu when he split the Shin sect in two (Nishi Honganji being the other) in order to diminish it's power.[1]

Higashi Honganji complex, total area: 99,000 m², interior space 29,700 m²
Higashi Honganji complex, total area: 99,000 m², interior space 29,700 m²

Higashi Honganji is also the name of the head temple in Kyoto, a collection of buildings built in 1895 after a fire burned down the previous temple[1] (see images on top and left).

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture by Esben Andreasen, pp. 11, 38-39, 101 / University of Hawaii Press 1998, ISBN 0-8248-2028-2


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