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Mount Hiei
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hieizan, Hiei-zan, Eizan, Hokurei, Miyako Fuji
mountain in Kyōto, Kyōto prefefecture and Ōtsu, Shiga Prefectures, Japan
Key facts
- Elevation
- 848.1 m (2,782 ft)
- Listing
- List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
- Location
- Honshū , Shiga Prefecture , Japan
- Topo map s
- Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 京都東北部, 50000:1 京都及大阪
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Relief map of Mount Hiei West side Mount Hiei (比叡山, Hiei-zan) is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan.
The temple of Enryaku-ji, the first outpost of the Japanese Tendai (Chin. Tiantai) sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mount Hiei by Saichō in 788 and rapidly grew into a sprawling complex of temples and buildings that were roughly divided into three areas:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Hiei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.