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	Engakuji Temple
		Engakuji is the main temple of the Engakuji school within the Rikai sect of Zen Buddhism.
		Engakuji was founded by Hojo Tokimune in the year 1282, one year after the second invasion attempt by the Mongols was reverted.
		Engakuji is a few steps from Kitakamakura Station on the JR Yokosuka Line, one station before Kamakura Station when arriving from Tokyo.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e3103.html (181 words)

	Zen Buddhism Calendar
		Ekiho (?-?), Zen teacher, Rinzai line, head of Engakuji, exorcised the temple and it's surroundings from an old badger who (like most of the badgers in medieaval Japan) was an expert in bewitching passers-by in 1394.
		Soen Shaku, (b.1859), Zen teacher, abbot of the Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, Japan died in 1919.
		The mushi-boshi (airing and display of treasures) ceremonies are held annually at Kenchoji and Engakuji in Kamakura, Japan.
	www.ciolek.com /WWWVLPages/ZenPages/ZenCalendar.html (3061 words)

	Donryu Jizo Great Bodhisattva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Survivors from the 74th Sentai and 95th Sentai erected a stone Jizo statue in 1975 near the main gate to the Zen Buddhist temple at Engakuji in Kamakura.
		Engakuji dates back to 1282, and the grounds include 18 branch temples and two National Treasures.
		Engakuji's famous temple bell, the largest in Kamakura, was donated in 1301 and stands at the top of a hill that can be reached by a long flight of steps.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/other/monuments/donryu (581 words)

	Engakuji
		1919 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60
		1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan
		1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/e/engakuji.html (74 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		The Zen sect of Buddhism (introduced from Sung-dynasty China) was embraced by the new ruling class and consequently Zen strongly influenced the culture of this period.
		Many Zen temples were built such as the Kenchoji and Engakuji in Kamakura and master sculptors of the day created realistic portraits and Buddhist sculpture.
		The nation's political and cultural center moved back to Kyoto and the warrior class began adopting aspects of the aristocratic and Buddhist culture which had continued to flourish in Kyoto during the Kamakura period.
	www.japancorner.com /cultural-history.asp (1416 words)

	Kamakura Calling
		Since long ago, Engakuji has rated as one of Japan's "Five Great" Zen temples, and is still a thriving center of Zen for students and laypersons alike.
		While the rest of town gears up for the annual hanami season with parades and drunken picnics in the parks, in the temples sakura are revered in silence.
		Down the road from Engakuji lies Meigetsu-in, founded during the Genji and Heike clan wars by a warrior to honor his dead father.
	www.japantraveler.com /issues/0004/kamakura_calling.html (1934 words)

	Engakuji
		As was the case in other temples, Engakuji was ravaged time and again by fires and earthquakes.
		Among today's Rinzai sects, Engakuji school is one of the biggest and has no fewer than 200 affiliated temples throughout Japan.
		As is common in Zen temples, Engakuji has two gates; one is the outer gate called Somon {soh-mon} and the other is the inner gate called Sanmon {sun-mon}.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~QM9T-KNDU/engakuji.htm (6935 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The main gate was rebuilt in the third year of Tenmei Age (1783) by Priest Daiyu Kokushi (Seisetsu), to whom Engaku-ji owed much for re-foundation.
		This is a Buddhist statue at one of the main inside temples at Engakuji.
		This is another Buddhist statue inside one of the temples at Engakuji.
	www2.carthage.edu /~lochtefe/nimmer/kamakura.html (310 words)

	CANOE Travel - Activities - Chasing samurai warriors
		Engakuji is a mystical place, complete with giant cedar trees and moss-covered stones.
		The air here was also different: clean and clear, with a slight smell of incense, a welcome respite from the dense air of Tokyo.
		Engakuji also contains the burial site of Tokimune Hojo, a 13th century leader who fended off two Mongolian invasions.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/Activities/Cultural/2004/03/02/369055.html (1380 words)

	Engakuji Temple Garden (Eifuku-ji) - a Gardens Guide review
		Engakuji Temple Garden (Eifuku-ji) - a Gardens Guide review
		: Engakuji is the main temple of the Engakuji section of the Rinzai Buddhist sect.
		The garden was restored in 1969 according to an old drawing.
	www.gardenvisit.com /ge/engakuji.htm (102 words)

	3/4/96 INT/GARDENING: SPLENDOR IN THE GRAVEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though it appears to be the handiwork of long-ago Buddhist priests, the garden dates only from 1986, and its creator is Shozo Arai.
		At Engakuji on a recent morning, a memorial service honoring three priests could have been a scene from medieval Japan.
		A procession slowly wound its way down the cypress-lined stone paths of the hillside temple, the monks in silk robes of vivid colors--amber, purple, vermilion.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960304/gardening.html (714 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are also temple plaques with terse declamations such as "Indwelling Dragon" in the vigorous calligraphy of a shogun, as well as luxurious incense boxes, carved with peacocks trailing their feathers in flight.
		Even the 13th century "Founder's Chest" from neighbouring Engakuji temple has been opened, yielding rare silk brocades worn by its original founder from China.
		Although Japanese monks first brought Zen ("Chan") Buddhism and tea drinking from China in the 12th century, they failed to win over the Buddhist sects entrenched in the imperial capital of Kyoto.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/zen-art-190603.php (622 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Yabusame (September 14-16), the art of Japanese archery, is celebrated at Tsurugaoka-hachimangu Reitasai in Kamakura.
		Within Kamakura there are 9 municipal, 2 prefectural and 26 national historic sites including Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Wakamiya Oji, Kenchoji Temple, Engakuji Temple, Minamoto Yoritomo’s grave, the ruins of Yofukuji Temple and Wakaejima – the ruins of the city’s ancient port island.
		The Great Buddha of Kamakura (Daibutsu) is a bronze cast statue of Buddha approximately 37 feet high and weighing about 93 tons.
	www.japancorner.com /kamakura.asp (880 words)

	Shewbox.org » 2004 » June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of the most serene places I visited in Japan was Engakuji (yup, more temples).
		While I was at the highest point of Engakuji, my recording session was overtaken first by loud construction, and when that finally abated, by a group of loud dogs.
		It especially irked me because no later than 15 seconds after the construction crew stopped to take a break, the dogs chimed in with their yelping.
	www.shewbox.org /?m=200406 (510 words)

	Beautiful Places in Japan (japantour.multiply.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A small pond lying on the other side of the railway tracks is still a part of Engakuji and is called Byakurochi (egret pond).
		Over the past 700 years, the Temple was ravaged at least ten major fires, and if other calamities like earthquakes are included, such a calamity occurred every 50 years on average.
		In Kamakura, there are the Big-Five Zen temples and this Engakuji ranks second, accommodating today more than 200 priests.
	japantour.multiply.com /journal/item/3 (858 words)

	Metropolis - Japan Travel Feature: Now and Zen
		First built in 1375, Heirinji is one of a family of temples renowned for their religious importance and natural beauty.
		The founder, Sekishitsu Zenkyu, was also the master of Shofukuji in Fukuoka (the first Rinzai Zen temple in Japan), Engakuji in Kamakura and Tenryuji in Kyoto (famous for what are perhaps the most exquisite temple gardens in the country).
		As has been the fate of much of Japan's cultural heritage, a fire during the feudal war of the Tensho era (1573-1591) decimated Heirinji.
	www.metropolis.co.jp /tokyotravel/tokyotravelfeature/359/tokyotravelfeatureinc.htm (920 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His rickshaw clattered to Engakuji on a spring day in 1890.
		Hearn was surprised by the temple's mammoth, two-storied gate.
		Hearn also alighted at Kenchoji, whose gate he attributed to the architect of Engakuji's.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040926x3.htm (485 words)

	RLGN 4311/5311--Session 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		1871--he was ordained a monk at Engakuji monastery in Rinzai Zen sect (age 12).
		Found as an infant next to the frozen body of his mother, he was taken to a monastery.
		1896--he went to Engakuji to study with Shaku, but was dismissed when he was discovered to have tuberculosis.
	www.wbu.edu /AM/howle/session4.htm (1470 words)

	Kamakura, Japan - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The many temples and monuments preserved since the days of the Kamakura shogunate include the city's most celebrated landmark, the 12.8 m (42 ft) high Great Buddha, or Daibutsu, cast in bronze in 1252.
		The nearby beaches of Shichiriga and Yuiga are popular attractions, as are the Kenchoji and Engakuji temples.
		Kamakura is home to several museums, including the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art (founded in 1951).
	www.galenfrysinger.com /kamakura_japan.htm (265 words)

	Kamakura Today - sightseeing
		Cherry blossoms have long been loved by the Japanese and it's almost like the National Flower.
		You may be overwhelmed by the crowds and noise revelers make, but not at the sacred temples.
		Engakuji, Tokeiji, Jochiji, Meigetsu-in, Kenchoji, Tsurugaoka Dankazura the Main Street, Hachimangu Shrine, Kamakura Shrine, Myo-o-in, Eishoji, Jokomyoji, Ankokuronji, Choshoji, Komyoji, Kosokuji, Gokurakuji, Genjiyama park has full of cherry trees, but will be packed with flower-viewing parties
	www.kamakuratoday.com /e/sightseeing/f_spring.html (248 words)

	Portfolio 6 > Traditional Architecture - Japan & the Allied Occupation
		This is the zendo, or zen contemplation hall of the Engakuji temple in Kamakura.
		It turned out that we visited Engakuji, one of the major Zen Buddhist monastery-temple complexes, established about 600 years ago [founded in 1282].
		These flowers were descendants of the original plants put there 600 years before, and the flower is carved in the 550-year-old lacquer platform supporting the wooden image of the founder of Engakuji, which is enshrined in a little temple hidden behind the old, original one mentioned before.
	library.osu.edu /sites/rarebooks/japan/2_6_print.html (2964 words)

	eFilmCritic - Everything I saw in Japan — including the most expensive movie of my life
		Chiei had told me about the trail, and since I mentioned that I wanted to see Engakuji, she recommends I take the hiking trail to it rather than the train back, since it’s the most direct route (at least, that was what I gathered from our very spotty but pleasant conversation).
		At the end of the trail, as promised, is the temple of Engakuji.
		A group of older men and women quietly practice the art of the bow, using the traditional Samurai longbow that is a good foot taller than me (who is, in turn, a good foot taller than them).
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=776 (8232 words)

	Kana Text - MIHO MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This kana text can also be called a written Buddhist discussion, and her kao (written seal) appears to be an enlarged joining of the 2 characters of her name, nyo and dai.
		She is said to have studied with the Chinese priest Mugaku Sogen (C: Wuxue Zuyuan, Bukko Kokushi, founder of Kamakura's Engakuji) and formally entered the Buddhist life under that teacher, but she is also known to have donated and founded a Buddhist convent (later the Rinzai sect temple Keiaiji) in Itsutsuji Omiya.
		In 1279 (Koan 2), she inherited the teachings of Bukko from China and arranged her temple with the cooperation of Koho Ken'nichi and others.
	www.miho.or.jp /booth/html/doccon/00000640.htm (285 words)

	D.T. Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1891, the year after his mother's death, one of Suzuki's brothers, who was working as a lawyer, sent him to Tokyo, where he enrolled in classes at what is now Waseda University and also at Tokyo Imperial University.
		As a result of this visit, Carus wrote The Gospel of Buddha, which Suzuki translated into Japanese at Engakuji while continuing to study Zen as a lay-disciple.
		The Suzukis lived at Engakuji until the death of S
	www.todaysquote.com /dtsuzuki/dtsuzuki.htm (1335 words)

	Sushi Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The site was selected by the great Zen monk Enni, who, with the monk Eisai, introduced Zen Buddhism to Japan in the 13th century.
		Another one of the Gozan, Engakuji temple dates from 1282 and is the headquarters of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism.
		Following the coast west from Kamakura brings you to the popular Shonan beach, always full of sun-worshippers and surfers.
	www.rit.edu /~vaf0064/737/groupAssignments/finalSite/sightseeing/Kamakura.shtml (384 words)

	insideBuddhism.com > People > Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Suzuki was born in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.
		While a student at Tokyo University, he undertook Zen training under Imakita Kôsen and Shaku Sôen at the Engakuji in Kamakura.
		In 1897, he moved to La Salle, Illinois to work as an assitant to Paul Carus, the president of Open Court Publishing Co. While working for Carus, Suzuki translated several Oriental religious and philosophical works into English, including the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana.
	www.insidebuddhism.com /people/biography.asp?id=13 (396 words)

	Kamakura Period in Japanese History - 1185 to 1336
		They sent out lacquerware, fans, screens, weapons and sulfur - and in return they received coins, silk brocades, porcelains, books and paintings.
		A new style, called "Engakuji", began which involved thatched roofs, rather than the old tile style.
		Go-Daigo also wanted to take control back from the shoguns, and fought with the existing military forces.
	www.lisashea.com /japan/articles/kamakura.html (328 words)

	Index.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On Saturday 26th April 2003 I attended a Zazenkai (Zen retreat) at Engakuji Temple in Kamakura.
		As a new student I had to wait outside the main gate for 20 minutes before being allowed in - but this wasn't the Fight Club, it was the Sitting club.
		If we can do this, I think, then there is no better place to be.
	www.unthinkable1.com /sittingatengakuji.htm (769 words)

	Go Seigen's Best-of-Ten Matches
		The second best of ten match ("Kamakura jubango"), sponsored by the Yomiuri Shinbun.
		The games were played in the Kenkuji, Engakuji and Hachimaiju Temples near Kamakura, which is why it is called the Kamakura jubango.
		The game recorder for the first game was Miss Hagiwara Sachiko.
	gobase.org /games/china/misc/disks/match-10.html (411 words)

	Have a Slight Look at Historical City -Kamakura- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Go along the new road, and make a left here to enter Engakuji.(You are at red point on the Map.)
		Engakuji was founded in 1282 to mourn soldiers in wars with Mongol* by Hojo Tokimune.
		The first chief priest was Mugakusogen who was invited form China.
	www.kekos.net /kamakura/No4/engakujiej.htm (167 words)

	Chronology of Japan's Fine Atrs
		Consequently Zen strongly influenced the culture of that period, when Kamakura was Japan's capital.
		Many Zen temples were built, of which typical examples are Kenchoji and Engakuji temples in Kamakura.
		Meanwhile, Unkei, Kaikei, and other master sculptors revived the Nara style with realistic portrait sculpture as well as Buddhist sculpture.
	www.kanzaki.com /jinfo/jart-fine.html (1494 words)

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