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Central plaque above the main Buddha statue in the Great Shrine Hall (Daiyū Hōden 大雄寶殿), Manpukiji (萬福寺) Liu, Jeffrey; Wan, Ziling

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Central plaque above alter in the Great Shrine Hall (Daiyū Hōden 大雄寶殿) in Manpuku-ji Temple (萬福寺), an Ōbaku 黄檗 Zen temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. The central plaque reads "真空" (True Emptiness ). After the death of Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673), Emperor Taisho 大正 (r.1912-1926) of Japan granted the posthumous title of Master Shinku 真空 in 1917.

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Title
Central plaque above the main Buddha statue in the Great Shrine Hall (Daiyū Hōden 大雄寶殿), Manpukiji (萬福寺)
Creator
Liu, Jeffrey; Wan, Ziling
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2023-07-25
Description
Central plaque above alter in the Great Shrine Hall (Daiyū Hōden 大雄寶殿) in Manpuku-ji Temple (萬福寺), an Ōbaku 黄檗 Zen temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. The central plaque reads "真空" (True Emptiness ). After the death of Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673), Emperor Taisho 大正 (r.1912-1926) of Japan granted the posthumous title of Master Shinku 真空 in 1917.
Subject
Manpukuji; Buddhism; Temples; Edo period; Plaque; Calligraphy
Geographic Location
Uji-shi (Japan); Kyoto (Japan); 34.9138573; 135.8075649
Type
Still Image
Language
chi
Notes
Author affiliations: University of Arizona
Series
Cluster 1.5: Extended Textual Communities
Date Available
2024-01-05
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0438459
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87120
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate; Undergraduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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