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The Golden Pavilion (金閣, Kinkaku) is a three-story building on the grounds of the Rokuon-ji temple complex. [15] The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf . [ 15 ] The pavilion functions as a shariden (舎利殿), housing relics of the Buddha (Buddha's Ashes).
Kinkaku-ji with Mirror Lake Garden. The Kyoto Gardens of Honolulu Memorial Park is a cemetery located in the eastern half of the Honolulu Memorial Park, 22 Craigside Place, Honolulu, Hawaii. Its three-tiered Sanju Pagoda, the Kinkaku-ji Temple, and Mirror Gardens are fine examples of Japanese traditional-style structures and gardens built ...
Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, originally built in 1397 (Muromachi period). Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs.
Buddhist temple of Kinkaku-ji, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Butsuden or Butsu-dō (仏殿・仏堂) – lit. "Hall of Buddha". A Zen temple's main hall. Seems to have two stories, but has in fact only one and measures either 3×3 or 5×5 bays. Any building enshrining the statue of Buddha or of a bodhisattva and dedicated to prayer. [25]
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji) is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating ...
Kinkakuji Temple, the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji, originated as the villa of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利 義満, September 25, 1358 – May 31, 1408) was the third shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, ruling from 1368 to 1394 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
During this period there was a strong rivalry between the Kofuku-ji and the Kiyomizu-dera temples, and both had influence around the region. [ 2 ] Many of the temple's present buildings were constructed in 1633 on the orders of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu . [ 4 ]
After his death, Yoshimasa arranged for this property to become a Zen temple under the name Jishō-ji. [1] The temple is today associated with the Shokoku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The two-storied Kannon-den (観音殿, Kannon hall), is the main temple structure. Its construction began February 21, 1482 (Bummei 14, fourth day of the second month ...