Daijō-ji

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The Buddha Hall of Daijō-ji.

The Daijō-ji ( Japanese 大乗 寺 ) is a Buddhist temple of the Sōtō-shū in the Japanese city ​​of Kanazawa ( Ishikawa Prefecture ).

The temple originally belonged to the Shingon-shū and was built near the village of Nonoichi ( 野 々 市 ) in the province of Kaga around 1261 by the local feudal lord Togashi Iehisa ( 富 樫 家 尚 ).

As a result of the so-called dispute about the succession in the third generation within the Sōtō-shū Tettsū Gikai ( 徹 通 義 介 ; 1219-1309) left the Eihei-ji and related with the help of the former Daruma-shū followers Chōkai and the support of a friend Branch of the Fujiwara family, the Daijō-ji (around 1292). Because of Gikai's good relations with the Shingon-shu, he soon received permission to convert the temple into a Zen monastery, which happened in 1293. In the following decades the temple developed into the center of the medieval Sōtō movement in Japan.

1303 Keizan Jōkin was after the abdication of Gikais second head of Daijō-ji and developed during his tenure from here strong activities in the northeastern provinces of the country. His successor was Meihō Sotetsu ( 明 峰 素 哲 ; 1277-1350).

In 1697, under the auspices of the Toda family, whose heads were powerful followers of the Maeda family, the temple was moved to its current location. The Buddha Hall ( 仏 殿 , Butsuden ), completed in 1702 , was declared an important cultural asset of Japan on June 2, 1983 .

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  2. ↑ a b http://www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/meisyo_e/kougai/daijoji/daijojiE.html
  3. ↑ Dumoulin 1986, p. 105; in various other sources 1282 and 1283.
  4. ↑ Dumoulin 1986, p. 108.
  5. ↑ Dumoulin 1986, pp. 109f, 112.
  6. ↑ 大乗 寺 仏 殿 ・ 旧 金澤 陸軍 兵器 支 廠 （石川 県 立 歴 史 博物館） . Ishikawa Prefecture, February 6, 2014, accessed January 3, 2015 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 36 ° 31 ′ 57.2 ″  N , 136 ° 39 ′ 32.2 ″  E