The Ikaruga Prince

…Educational institutions for monks established by various Buddhist sects during the Edo period, also called gakuryo, danrin, or danrin. The Edo Shogunate made it compulsory for each sect to attend school to study religious studies, but Buddhist studies centered on religious studies developed rapidly within each sect, and they required people to study at gakurin or other institutions for a certain period of time in order to become a chief priest. The main ones are as follows: In the Jodo sect Chinzei school, dansho were established in various places in the Middle Ages, but in the early Edo period, Zojoji Son'o conspired with Tokugawa Ieyasu to establish the so-called Kanto 18 danrin, consisting of the Five Danrin in Edo, such as Zojoji in Shiba and Denzuin in Koishikawa, and the Thirteen Danrin in the countryside, such as Komyo-ji in Kamakura and Shogan-ji in Musashino. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Prince Kasuga" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…江戸時代に仏教各宗派で設立した僧侶の教育機関で，学寮，談林，檀林などとも呼ばれた。江戸幕府は各宗の法度（はつと）で宗学研鑽のための就学を義務づけたが，また各宗でも宗学を中心とする仏教研究が急速に発展し，住職となるために一定期間学林などで学ぶことを求めた。その主要なものを示すと，浄土宗鎮西派では，中世に各地の談所が設けられたが，江戸時代初頭に増上寺存応は徳川家康と謀り，芝増上寺，小石川伝通院などの江戸五檀林と，鎌倉光明寺，武蔵鴻巣勝願寺などの田舎十三檀林の，いわゆる関東十八檀林を定めた。…

※「鵤の太子」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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