Acolyte Residence Hall (Sōkaku tei 雙鶴亭), Manpukuji (萬福寺)

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Acolyte Residence Hall (Sōkaku tei 雙鶴亭), Manpukuji (萬福寺) Li, Erjia; Ma, Zhujun; Lin, Grace Cheng-Ying; Cilangasan, Malang

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Acolyte Residence Hall (Sōkaku tei 雙鶴亭) of Manpukuji (萬福寺), an Ōbaku 黄檗 Zen head temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. This hall is the accommodation for personal attendants (侍者) for the Abbots. In Manpukuji, personal attendants serve the East Abbot (東方丈), the current Abbot in charge. At the same time, some attendants are assigned to the West Abbot (西方丈), the previous Abbot of the temple. Image 01 shows the front view of the Acolyte Residence Hall. Image 02 shows the Hall assigned in Chinese, which is called 雙鶴亭. Image 03shows the overview of the inner hall from the entrance.

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Title	Acolyte Residence Hall (Sōkaku tei 雙鶴亭), Manpukuji (萬福寺)
Creator	Li, Erjia; Ma, Zhujun; Lin, Grace Cheng-Ying; Cilangasan, Malang
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2023-08-01
Description	Acolyte Residence Hall (Sōkaku tei 雙鶴亭) of Manpukuji (萬福寺), an Ōbaku 黄檗 Zen head temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. This hall is the accommodation for personal attendants (侍者) for the Abbots. In Manpukuji, personal attendants serve the East Abbot (東方丈), the current Abbot in charge. At the same time, some attendants are assigned to the West Abbot (西方丈), the previous Abbot of the temple. Image 01 shows the front view of the Acolyte Residence Hall. Image 02 shows the Hall assigned in Chinese, which is called 雙鶴亭. Image 03shows the overview of the inner hall from the entrance.
Subject	Manpukuji; Wanfu Temple; Buddhism; Zen; Japanese religion; Obaku; 17th century; Calligraphy; Monk
Geographic Location	Uji-shi (Japan); Kyoto (Japan); 34.9136; 135.80787
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author affiliations: University of Glasgow, Brown University, John Abbott College, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
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	10.14288/1.0438468
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87129
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Researcher; Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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