Nishi Hongwanji Temple (HQ of the Jodo-shin Buddhism)

We visited the Nihshi Hongwanji Temple on Nov 25, 2011 as a part of the course on "Introduction to Japanese Religion" which is provided for the Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA), Doshisha University. Rev. Gene Sekiya, a Hongwanji priest, guided us. In this movie he talked about the essence of Buddhism, especially Jodo-shin Buddhism, and escorted us to the Hall of Amida, the Founder's Hall, the Shoin Complex, the Kara Gate and the Flying Cloud Pavilion.

The Shin Buddhist path was founded by Shinran Shonin (1173-1263) during the Kamakura period, and in several centuries grew into one of the largest and most influential schools of Buddhism in Japan, a position it maintains today. The Hongwanji temple is the headquarters of the Hongwanji denomination of Shin Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha), and is known as Nishi (lit. "West") Hongwanji.

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