Sōji-ji Temple
is one of two of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism. The other is Eihei-ji temple in Fukui Prefecture. ''Fodor's'' calls it "one of the largest and busiest Buddhist institutions in Japan". The temple was founded in 740 as a Shingon Buddhist temple. Keizan, later known as Sōtō's great patriarch Taiso Jōsai Daishi, founded the present temple in 1321, when he renamed it Sōji-ji with the help and patronage of Emperor Go-Daigo. The temple has about twelve buildings in Tsurumi, part of the port city of Yokohama, one designed by the architect Itō Chūta.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Sōji-ji總持寺
- Religious building.image
- Sōjiji Sanshokaku 2009.jpg
- Religious building.caption
- Sanshōkaku (三松閣), visitors' center
- Religious building.location
- 2-Chōme 1-1 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Sōji-ji Sōtō
- Religious building.deity
- Shaka Nyorai (Śākyamuni)
- Religious building.country
- Japan
- Religious building.functional_status
- Head Temple
- Religious building.website
- http://sojiji.jp/
- Religious building.founded_by
- Gyōki (acc. legend)Keizan (conversion)
- Religious building.year_completed
- Nara period (acc. legend)1911 (relocation)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Routine
- Abbot
- Temple compound
- Notable burials
- School
- Affiliates
- Branches
- In the United States
- See also
- Gallery
- References
- External links
is one of two of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism. The other is Eihei-ji temple in Fukui Prefecture. ''Fodor's'' calls it "one of the largest and busiest Buddhist institutions in Japan". The temple was founded in 740 as a Shingon Buddhist temple. Keizan, later known as Sōtō's great patriarch Taiso Jōsai Daishi, founded the present temple in 1321, when he renamed it Sōji-ji with the help and patronage of Emperor Go-Daigo. The temple has about twelve buildings in Tsurumi, part of the port city of Yokohama, one designed by the architect Itō Chūta.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Keizan, the temple's founder Giving it the name circa 740, Gyōki (668–749) founded the temple as a Shingon Buddhist temple in Noto, a peninsula on Honshu, Japan's largest island. At that time, the temple was a small chapel within the precincts of a larger Shinto shrine called Morooka Hiko Jinja. By 1296, the temple had grown enough to support a full-time priest and a master ajari named Jōken was assigned there.