- this
single English term
translates several ****anese words,
among them
butsuden, butsu-dō, kondō, konpon-chūdō, and hondō. Hondō is its
exact ****anese...
-
followed by a
session of zazen.
These activities are held at the main hall (
Butsuden),
Kojirin and Hojo
buildings respectively. A four-day "Summer
Lecture Series"...
- zendō (禅堂, Chinese: chántáng), as well as a "buddha hall" (佛殿, Ch:, Jp:
butsuden) used for
ritual purposes which houses the "main
object of veneration"...
- a tea hut
called Yokobue-an (横笛庵), Tōkei-ji's
former butsuden (旧東慶寺仏殿, Kyū-Tōkei-ji
butsuden) and Tōmyō-ji's
former hon-dō (Main Hall) (旧燈明寺本堂, Kyū-Tōmyō-ji...
- (katōmado) and
paneled doors.
Typical of the
style is also the main hall (
Butsuden),
which has just one
story but
seems to have two
because it has a covered...
-
built in
traditional Chinese chán (Jpn. zen) style, also
known as zenshū-
butsuden-zukuri. It is
called the
Cupola of the
Ultimate (究竟頂, ****kyō-chō). The...
-
covers the aisles. The
drawing shows the
floor plan of a
typical Zen main
butsuden such as the one in the
photo above at Enkaku-ji in Kamakura. The core of...
- rafters,
ornaments called kibana, and
decorative pent roofs. Kōzan-ji's
butsuden in Shimonoseki, Zenpuku-in's shaka-dō in Kainan,
Wakayama and Anraku-ji's...
- text
describes how Zen
school temples (Sōtō (曹洞),
Rinzai (臨済))
included a
butsuden or butsu-dō (main hall), a hattō (lecture hall), a kuin (kitchen/office)...
- Hattō, the
building behind the
Butsuden. For this reason, the Hattō is
often called Ryūō-den (龍王殿). In
front of the
Butsuden stand some
great Chinese juniper...
