Eiheiji

Eiheiji is considered one of two main temples of the Soto faculty of Zen Buddhism, the most important unmarried non secular denomination in Japan by way of wide variety of temples in a unmarried felony entity. Eihei-ji is located approximately 15 km east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its call manner "temple of everlasting peace in Japanese, approach everlasting, hei' means peaceful, and ji approach "Buddhist temple. Its founder turned into Eihei Dogen who introduced Soto Zen from China to Japan throughout the thirteenth century.

The ashes of Do gen and a memorial to him are within the Joyoden the Founder's Hall at Eihei-ji. William Bodiford of UCLA writes that, "The rural monastery Eiheiji particularly aggrandized Dogen to strengthen its very own authority vis-a-vis its institutional rivals inside the Soto denomination. Eihei-ji is a schooling monastery with extra than hundred priests and nuns in residence. As of 2003, Eihei-ji had 800,000 traffic in keeping with year, much less than half of the range of travelers who came ten years before. Visitors with Zen experience might also participate after making prior arrangements and all site visitors are handled as spiritual trainees.