A , also termed the Founder's Hall, is a temple structure in a Japanese
Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding
abbot and other significant teachers and
Buddha ancestors are kept,
[Kinoshita, 58] along with a memorial slab (
Japanese ''
ihai''). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (''soshido'') or Reflection Hall (''Eishitsu''), this building holds
memorial services yearly on the anniversary of the death of the founding abbot.
[Baroni, 95]
The largest Founder's Hall in Japan is the Goei-dō (御影堂) in front of the
Higashi Hongwanji (Hongan-ji) Temple in
Kyoto,
Japan
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, one of two head temples of the
Jōdo Shinshū
, also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism. It was founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran.
Shin Buddhism is the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan.
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sect of Buddhism.
See also
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is a Japanese term used in reference to the founder of a school of Buddhism
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Buddhism in Japan
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