Place Institution Buddhist traditions
Hongan-ji Temple
本願寺 ja
Collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism
- Dated from 1321 CE
- Also called Honganji, Hongwanji, history of Hongan-ji
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
- Kakunyo ↗Named as founder
Japanese Jōdo Shinshū priest (1270–1351) and great-grandson of Shinran
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 1321 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Hongan-ji Temple, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayNishi Hongan-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Head temple of Honganji-ha school -
under 1 km awayHigashi Hongan-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan; head temple of Ōtani-ha school -
1.2 km awayTō-ji Temple
building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
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1.4 km awayMibu-dera
building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
1.5 km awayBukkō-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan -
1.7 km awaySai-ji
former Buddhist temple in Japan -
1.9 km awaySanjūsangen-dō Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan -
1.9 km awayHōkō-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
Connections
How Hongan-ji Temple connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
5 statements on this record
- 5 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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