Place Institution Buddhist traditions
Tō-ji Temple
東寺 zh
Building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Dated from 676 CE
- Also called Tōji, Kyōō Gokoku-ji, Tō-ji
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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KūkaiNamed as founder Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
- Fujiwara no Isendo ↗Named as founder
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 676 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 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 Tō-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 awaySai-ji
former Buddhist temple in Japan -
1.2 km awayHongan-ji Temple
collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism -
1.3 km awayNishi Hongan-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Head temple of Honganji-ha school -
1.5 km awayHigashi Hongan-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan; head temple of Ōtani-ha school -
2.1 km awayManju-ji
building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
2.3 km awaySanjūsangen-dō Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan -
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2.4 km awayMibu-dera
building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan -
2.4 km awayHōjū-ji Temple
Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect dedicated to Acala in Higashiyama-ku, Japan
Connections
How Tō-ji Temple connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 8
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is part of Shinbutsu Reijō Junpai no Michi
- is part of 33 Sacred Sites of Luoyang Kannon
- is part of Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kyoto Buddhist temple dedicated to Thirteen Buddhas in Kyoto, Japan
- is part of Shingon sect eighteen Motoyama
- is part of 西国愛染十七霊場
- is part of 12 Yakushi pilgrimage sites in Kyoto
- is part of Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site
- is part of Miyako Shichifukujin
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
12 statements on this record
- 12 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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