Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura - Beatrice Lane Suzuki †
7 Higashi Honganji
Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura - Beatrice Lane Suzuki †
Beatrice Lane Suzuki † [+]
Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was a very well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahāyāna Buddhism and the American wife of the well-known Zen Buddhist Suzuki Daisetsu. She lived in Japan for many years and came to know the leading temple centres of various Buddhist schools - especially in Kyōto and Kamakura - very well.
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In this chapter, the author focuses on the Honganji branch in Buddhism and how they split in the 16th century, when the abbot Shinran Shōnin abdicated his position and founded a new temple.