monzeki
Sign in to savewere Japanese Buddhist priests of aristocratic or Imperial lineage. The term was also applied to the temples in which they lived.
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It is catalogued under topics including Japanese Buddhist clergy, Japanese monarchy and Monzeki.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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were Japanese Buddhist priests of aristocratic or Imperial lineage. The term was also applied to the temples in which they lived.
An example of a monzeki temple is Daikaku-ji in Kyoto.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “monzeki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.