Koyasan University

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Koyasan University
founding 1886/1926
Sponsorship Private
place Kōya , Wakayama Prefecture
country Japan
Students 425 (May 2009)
Employee 40 (March 2009)
Website www.koyasan-u.ac.jp
Main gate

The Kōyasan University ( Japanese 高 野山 大学 , Kōyasan daigaku ) is a private Buddhist ( Shingon-shū ) university in Japan . It is located in Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture .

history

The story began in May 1886 when the sect Kogi-ha ( 古義派 ) of the Shingon shū the seminary Kogi Daigakurin ( 古義大学林 ) founded (other Shingon sect also established their priests schools later to Taisho University merged were). The Daigakurin was renamed in 1907 in Private Kōyasan College of the Shingon Sects Association ( 私立 真言 宗 連 合 高 野山 大学 , Shiritsu Shingon-shū rengō Kōyasan daigaku ). In April 1926, the Kōyasan University was founded. In 1943 she founded the Kōyasan Research Institute for Mikkyō ( 高 野山 密 教 研究所 ), which in 1958 was renamed the Research Institute for Mikkyō Culture ( 密 教 文化 研究所 ). In February 1949 the university was reorganized under the new Japanese education system.

The sponsor of the university, the educational body Kōyasan-Gakuen ( 学校 法人 高 野山 学園 ), also supports a high school and a kindergarten.

Faculties

  • Faculty of Humanities
    • Department of Mikkyō Studies
      Subjects: Mikkyō Studies, Humanities, and Spiritual Care.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.koyasan-u.ac.jp/eng/
  2. ↑ 高 野山 大学: 在 籍 学生 数  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Kōyasan University: Student Numbers), PDF in Japanese: Undergraduate 223, Masters Courses 27, Doctoral Courses 11, Distance Learning (Masters) 164. Retrieved June 4, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.koyasan-u.ac.jp  
  3. ↑ 高 野山 大学: 2008 （平 成 20） 年度 事業 報告 書  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Kōyasan University: Annual Report 2008), PDF in Japanese, page 3: academic staff (full-time) 24, other staff (full-time) 16. Accessed June 4, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.koyasan-u.ac.jp  
  4. ↑ 高 野山 大学: 2008 （平 成 20） 年度 事業 報告 書: 沿革 史  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Kōyasan University: Business Report 2008: History of the University), PDF in Japanese. Retrieved June 4, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.koyasan-u.ac.jp  
  5. ↑ 密 教 文化 研究所 ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Japanese, accessed June 4, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koyasan-u.ac.jp

Coordinates: 34 ° 12 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 135 ° 35 ′ 5.8 ″  E