Kōmyō-ji (Katō)

	Kōmyō-ji (Katō) Kōmyō-ji ( ja, 光明寺，) is the name of numerous Buddhist temples in Japan and other East Asian communities, and may refer to: * Kōmyō-ji (Ayabe), a temple in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture; see List of National Treasures of Japan (temples)#Treasures * Kōmyō-ji (Kamakura), in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture * Guang Ming Temple, Buddhist temple in Orlando, Florida, USA {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Buddhist Temples In Japan Buddhist temples or Buddhist monasteries together with Shinto shrines, are considered to be amongst the most numerous, famous, and important religious buildings in Japan.The term "Shinto shrine" is used in opposition to "Buddhist temple" to mirror in English the distinction made in Japanese between Shinto and Buddhist religious structures. In Japanese the first are called , the second . The shogunates or leaders of Japan have made it a priority to update and rebuild Buddhist temples since the Momoyama period. The Japanese word for a Buddhist monastery is ( ''kun'' reading) and the same kanji also has the pronunciation ''ji'' (''on'' reading), so that temple names frequently end in ''-dera'' or ''-ji''. Another ending, , is normally used to refer to minor temples. Such famous temples as Kiyomizu-dera, Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in are temples which use the described naming pattern. Etymology The Japanese word for a Buddhist temple was anciently also written phonetically 天良, ''ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kōmyō-ji (Ayabe) Kōmyō-ji ( ja, 光明寺，) is the name of numerous Buddhist temples in Japan and other East Asian communities, and may refer to: * Kōmyō-ji (Ayabe), a temple in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture; see List of National Treasures of Japan (temples)#Treasures * Kōmyō-ji (Kamakura), in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture * Guang Ming Temple, Buddhist temple in Orlando, Florida, USA {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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picture info	Kōmyō-ji (Kamakura) is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo sect in Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan, the only major one in the city to be close to the sea. Kōmyō-ji is number one among the , a group of 18 Jōdo temples established during the Edo period by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and dedicated to both the training of priests and scholarly research. It is also the sect's head temple for the Kantō region. In spite of the fact it is a Jōdo sect temple, Kōmyō-ji has several of the typical features of a Zen temple, for example a ''sanmon'' (main gate), a pond and a ''karesansui'' (rock garden). Kōmyō-ji has always enjoyed the patronage of Japan's powerful and is the only Buddhist temple in Kamakura to have had the privilege of being a ''daimyō''s funeral temple. It was chosen for that role by the Naitō clan, feudal lords from today's Miyazaki Prefecture whose tombs are part of the temple's compound. The temple, besides the usual Buddhist cemetery, maintains a special crypt for the ashes of house pets and ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]