西山 is an East Asian name meaning "Western mountain" or "Western mountains".
西山 may refer to:
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Xishan (disambiguation) Xishan may refer to the following locations in China:
*Western Hills (西山), mountain range in the west of Beijing
*Western Mountains (西山), mountain range located 12 km west of Kunming in Yunnan
*Xishan (, ''Xīshān'', lit. "Tin Hill"), ...
(xīshān), the Chinese pinyin transliteration
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Nishiyama (disambiguation) Nishiyama (, "western mountain") may refer to:
People with the surname
*Hidetaka Nishiyama, American martial arts exponent and founder of Shotokan
* Kazutaka Nishiyama, Japanese baseball player
* Keiki Nishiyama, Japanese volleyball player
*, Japan ...
, the Japanese transliteration of native Japanese reading
* Seizan, Japanese transliteration of borrowed Chinese reading
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Shōkū
, sometimes called , was a disciple of Hōnen, founder of the Jōdo-shū Buddhist sect. Shōkū later succeeded Jōhen, a Shingon monk with an affinity for Pure Land Buddhism, as the head Eikandō (itself a former Shingon temple). Shōkū then e ...
, Buddhist monk, also called Seizan
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Seizan Amida Hall at Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji, with the famous "Amida looking back" (Mikaeri Amida) statue.
is a branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism that was founded by Hōnen's disciple, Shōkū (1177–1247), who often went by the name ''Seizan.'' The name deri ...
, Buddhist sect, named for the monk
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