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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mampukuji
Mampukuji kha-btags is considered to be the work of Ming period and nothing is strange about its preserving rather old characteristics.
Mampukuji is a Chinese-style Zen temple founded by the Chinese monk Ingen in 1661 (the year Kanbun 1 - early Edo Era), the headquarters of Obaku sect (one of Zen sects) with some 500 branch temples nationwide.
The Zen master Ingen is a high-ranking priest in the late Ming era in China, and his renown spread as far as to Japan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mampukuji   (155 words)

  
 Kyoto Travel: Mampukuji
Mampukuji is the head temple of the Zen Obaku sect, which entered Japan from China through Nagasaki in 1654 as the last of Japan's three sects of Zen Buddhism (the other two are the Rinzai and Soto sects).
Six years later, Mampukuji was built in an architecture style of China's Ming Dynasty.
Mampukuji is a 5 minute walk from JR Obaku Station on the JR Nara Line.
www.japan-guide.com /e/e3924.html   (223 words)

  
 小野田部屋/An Old Tibetan Kha-bTags Preserved at the Mampukuji 萬福寺 Temple in Kyoto
Yin-yuan died on April 1st at the age of eighty-two in 1673 the very year when the brocade of Avalokiteshvara was given and brought to the Obakusan Mampukuji.
But, I don't think that this is the reason why this kha-btags was presented to Mampukuji temple, or that ex-Emper Gomizuno and Zen master Yin-yuan understood this sentence.
I guess such a process of triming is the reason that the five works including the Mampukuji kha-btags differ from each other in size..
www.bukkyo-u.ac.jp /mmc01/onoda/works/paper/0409pekingpaper.html   (2513 words)

  
 2577
Highly respected by Tokugawa Shogunate and Go-mizunoo, an abdicated emperor who joined a Buddhist order, he was given 100,000 tsubo (81.68 acre) for temple construction in the present site.
He established a Ming-dynasty-style Zen temple a la Chinese Obakusan, and named Obakusan Mampukuji after the Chinese original.
In what is called as tea ceremony, we serve tea made of pulverized tealeaf stirred in hot water.
www1.ocn.ne.jp /~mrc/e_mrc/e_2577.htm   (463 words)

  
 JAANUS / oubakuga 黄檗画
A new wave of Chinese influence came to Japanese Zen Buddhism in the mid-17c when many Oubaku sect monks, at the fall of the Ming 明 dynasty in China, emigrated to Japan and in 1665 constructed the chief Oubaku sect temple Mampukuji 万福寺, near Kyoto.
Immigrant Chinese monks, as abbots at Mampukuji, led Oubaku Zen for the next 100 years while Japanese monks played an important role in spreading the doctrine.
The Oubaku sect's syncretic teachings, combining elements of Pure Land Buddhism and the esoteric sects with Zen practice did not profoundly affect Japanese religion.
www.aisf.or.jp /~jaanus/deta/o/oubakuga.htm   (475 words)

  
 Mampuku-ji Temple/Obaku-Mampukuji Zen temple in Uji near Kyoto, Japan
Mampukuji temple, near Obaku station on the Nara Line, was founded in 1661 by the Chinese monk Ingen as was built in the Ming-dynasty Chinese architectural style.
The founder of Mampukuji was a Chinese Zen master, Imgen (Chin Yin-yuan 1592-1673), who at the age of 29, entered a temple called Mampukuji (in Chinese Wan-fu-szu) on Mount Obaku (Chinese - Huang-po) in the Chinese province of Fujian, eventually becoming its superior.
Those whose respect he gained included the abbot of Myoshinji, Ryokei 1602-1670, who was to become a disciple, the retired emperor Gomizunoo (1596-1680) and the fourth shogun, Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-1680).
www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/kyoto/manpukuji.html   (1105 words)

  
 Uji : Byodoin Temple & Obakusan Mampukuji Temple - Japan Reference
Situated 12km south of Kyoto station, Uji is a popular day-trip for tourists staying in the former capital.
At 29, Ingen entered the temple of Mampukuji ("Wan-fu-si) on Mount Obaku ("Huang-bo") in the Chinese province of Fujian.
The Mampukuji Temple was established in 1661 and constructed in Ming Chinese style.
www.jref.com /practical/uji_byodoin.shtml   (478 words)

  
 Worcester Art Museum - Daruma
Dokuryu (Chinese: Tai Li) was a Chinese scholar and calligrapher who fled the Manchu conquest of his homeland and arrived in Japan in 1653.
He took the name Dokuryu when he became a monk under Ingen, the Chinese founder of Mampukuji, the Obaku Zen temple near Kyoto.
The Obaku sect was influential in the spread of contemporary Chinese culture in Japan during the Edo period (1600-1868).
www.worcesterart.org /Collection/Japanese/1983.32.html   (184 words)

  
 Obaku Zen of BuddhistLinks.org
It was founded in 1654 when the Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi and his disciple Muyan, followers of the Linji tradition, went to Japan.
The head temple Mampukuji was founded at Uji in 1661.
Obakusan Mampukuji Temple - the head temple in Japan of the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism - http://www.nitrostatic.net/kyoto/053003/
www.buddhistlinks.org /Obaku.htm   (1642 words)

  
 Uji: Obakusan Mampukuji
Obakusan Mampukuji is the head temple in Japan of the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism and the teaching monastery for the sectfs student monks.
The founder of Mampukuji was a Chinese Zen Master, Ingen (Yin-yuan), who at the age of 29 entered the temple Mampukuji on Mt. Obaku in the Chinese province of Fujian, eventually becoming its superior.
The names was chosen to commemorate the Chinese temple of the same designation, and because of the number of Obaku trees found there.
www.nitrostatic.net /kyoto/053003   (353 words)

  
 Opera japonica/Companies/Fujiwara Opera
The Fujiwara Opera is managed by the Japan Opera Foundation:
also at Showa Music Academy: 1-16-6 Mampukuji, Aso-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 215
The Fujiwara Opera is Japan's leading company performing Italian and French Opera.
www.operajaponica.org /companies/fujiwara.htm   (527 words)

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