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- Honzon (本尊, "fundamental honored [one]"), sometimes referred to as a Gohonzon (ご本尊 or 御本尊), is the enshrined main image or prin****l deity in ****anese...
- Shingon Buddhist temple in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, ****an. Its main devotion (honzon) is Yakushi. Daigo, literally "ghee", is used figuratively to mean "crème...
- purposes which houses the "main object of veneration" (本尊, Ch: běnzūn, Jp: honzon), usually a Buddha image. Life in a Zen monastery is often guided by a daily...
- to which devotional chanting is directed. Linguistically, the root word honzon (本尊) derives from ancient word konpon-sogyo, signifying a devotional object...
- the fundamental teachings in Nichiren Buddhism, which include Hommon-no-honzon (本門の本尊: object of devotion of the essential teaching), Hommon-no-kaidan...
- human skulls, which would be coated in the resultant mix in order to create honzon. However, those practices were considered heretical, leading to the sect's...
- chief priest of the temple. However, a replica of the statue (Maedachi Honzon) has been created which can be shown publicly once every six years in spring...
- male as a jitsurui deity and the female as a provisional incarnation. The honzon or focus of worship in this rite is thus called "provisional and real devas"...
- include what is considered his two most significant works, the Kanjin no Honzon Shō (観心本尊抄, "The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind") and the Kaimoku...
- Tendai sect located in the city of Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture, ****an. Its honzon is a bronze statue of Senju Kanzeon Bosatsu (千手観世音菩薩). The temple is also...