Place Institution Buddhist traditions
Nishi Hongan-ji Temple
西本願寺 zh
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Head temple of Honganji-ha school
- Dated from 1591 CE
- Also called Nishi Honganji, Honpa Honganji, Nishihonganji
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.
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KōsaNamed as founder Japanese warrior monk
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 1591 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 Nishi 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 awayHongan-ji Temple
collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism -
under 1 km awayHigashi Hongan-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan; head temple of Ōtani-ha school -
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1.3 km awayMibu-dera
building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
1.3 km awayTō-ji Temple
building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
1.4 km awayBukkō-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan -
1.8 km awaySai-ji
former Buddhist temple in Japan -
1.9 km awayRokkaku-dō Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, said to have been established by Prince Shōtoku, the name comes from its main hall's hexagonal shape, temple is part of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage -
1.9 km awayHōkō-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
Connections
How Nishi 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.
6 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 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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