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Buttsū ji

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Affiliation
  
Rinzai

Completed
  
1397 or 1399

Country
  
Japan

Phone
  
+81 848-66-3502

Location
  
22 Motoyama, Takasaka-chō, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima-ken, 729-0471

Founder
  
Kobayakawa Haruhira Guchu Shukyu

Address
  
22 Takasakacho Motoyama, Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture 729-0471, Japan

Similar
  
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Buttsū-ji (佛通寺) is a Buddhist temple head one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism, founded in 1397 or 1399 by the lord of Mihara—Kobayakawa Haruhira; its first Abbot was Buttoku Daitsu Zenji. The temple is named after its honorary founder, the Chinese master Buttsu Zenji. Located in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, the temple is head of the Buttsū-ji branch of Rinzai Zen, governing forty-seven temples.

References

Buttsū-ji Wikipedia