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Tendaijimon Sect

天台寺門宗 zh

Also called Tendai Jimon Sect, Jimon

Branches and affiliations

Branches

Recorded as a branch of

Tendai

Tendaijimon Sect

Founders

Enchin8 April 814 CE – 4 December 891 CE · Buddhist monk and founder of the Jimon school of Tendai Buddhism

Places and sites

Mii-dera Temple
Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Affiliation 1

Jimon and Sammon rival branches of the Tendai sect of Buddhism based on Mount Hiei just outside Kyoto

Gunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0

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