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Danrin-ji (檀林寺) was Japan's first Zen temple, founded in Saga, Kyōto, by order of Empress Danrin during the Jōwa era.[1]
The temple began as a nunnery with a cluster of 12 sub-temple buildings in 836.[2] Empress Danrin invited the monk Gikū to Danrin-ji and later took monastic vows there herself.[3] The Chan Buddhist teachings of Gikū were not well received in Japan and he returned to China.[4]
The temple was destroyed by fire in 928, but was restored in 1321, and during the Muromachi period the temple was designated as one of Kyōto's five great Buddhist nunneries.[3] The temple eventually fell into disrepair, and in 1339 construction of Tenryū-ji began on its grounds.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ REEVES, Kristopher (March 2019). "SAGA WOOS THE COURT: Vernacular Poetry, Powerful Women, and Romantic Verses". 文学部紀要 言語・文学・文化. 123: 1–34. ISSN 0529-6803.
- ↑ Johnson, Norris Brock (2012-07-10). Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden (in Danish). Stone Bridge Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-61172-526-1.
- 1 2 Faure, Bernard (2009-12-31). The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender. Princeton University Press. pp. 30, 194. doi:10.1515/9781400825615. ISBN 978-1-4008-2561-5.
- 1 2 Johnson, Norris Brock (1992). "Tenryu Temple and Garden: The Evolution of a Religious Landscape in Medieval Japan". Temples in Traditional Environments. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 3–11. OCLC 28485454.
Bibliography
[edit]- Kōjien, 6th edition
- Encyclopedia Nipponica
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