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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mampukuji (155 words) |
 | Mampukuji kha-btags is considered to be the work of Ming period and nothing is strange about its preserving rather old characteristics. |
| Mampukuji is a Chinese-style Zen temple founded by the Chinese monk Ingen in 1661 (the year Kanbun 1 - early Edo Era), the headquarters of Obaku sect (one of Zen sects) with some 500 branch temples nationwide. |
| The Zen master Ingen is a high-ranking priest in the late Ming era in China, and his renown spread as far as to Japan. |
| Kyoto Travel: Mampukuji (223 words) |
| Mampukuji is the head temple of the Zen Obaku sect, which entered Japan from China through Nagasaki in 1654 as the last of Japan's three sects of Zen Buddhism (the other two are the Rinzai and Soto sects). |
| Six years later, Mampukuji was built in an architecture style of China's Ming Dynasty. |
| Mampukuji is a 5 minute walk from JR Obaku Station on the JR Nara Line. |
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