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Nishi Hongan-ji (西本願寺) is a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple in the Shimogyō ward of Kyoto, Japan.It serves as the head temple of the sub-sect Honganji-ha.. It is one of two Jōdo Shinshū temple complexes in Kyoto, the other being Higashi Hongan-ji, which is the head temple of the sub-sect Ōtani-ha.
Nishi Honganji, Kyoto Higashi Hongan-ji, Kyoto. Hongan-ji (本願寺, Temple of the Primal Vow), also archaically romanized as Hongwanji, is the collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism (which further sub-divides into the Nishi and Higashi branches).
Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha (the period Japanese transcription), or more commonly Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha (the contemporary Japanese transcription, 浄土真宗本願寺派, Jōdo Shinshū Honganji-ha), is a Japanese Buddhist organization.
Jōdo Shinshū (浄土真宗, "The True Essence of the Pure Land Teaching" [1]), also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran.
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The Buddhist Churches of America (abbreviated as BCA in English, 米国仏教団 or Beikoku Bukkyōdan in Japanese) is the United States branch of the Nishi Honganji subsect of Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") Buddhism.
The leader of Buddhist Mission of North America, later Buddhist Churches of America, held the title kantoku between 1899 and 1918. [1] [2] Kantoku has been translated to "superintendent" [3] and "director".
Jōdo Shinshū wa established in South America in tandem with the immigration of Japanese people.The Mission was officially recognized by the Brazilian government in 1955 and is the most recent among overseas temple districts.