Edo Godanrin

…The Edo Shogunate made it compulsory for each sect to attend school to study the doctrine, but also each sect developed a rapid trend of Buddhist studies centered on the doctrine, and required that sects study for a certain period of time in order to become chief priests. The main examples are the Jodo sect's Chinzei school, which established dansho in various places in the Middle Ages, and the Zojoji Son'o in the early Edo period, in conspiracy with Tokugawa Ieyasu, established the so-called Kanto 18 danrin, consisting of 5 danrin in Edo, such as Zojoji in Shiba and Denzuin in Koishikawa, and 13 danrin in the countryside, such as Komyo-ji in Kamakura and Shogan-ji in Musashinosu. The Seizan school of the same sect also established 7 danrin, such as Komyo-ji in Yamashiro and Zenrin-ji in Kyoto, and the Nagoe school of the same sect also opened 2 danrin, such as Enzu-ji in Osawa, Shimotsuke. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Edo Godanrin" is listed below.

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…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。同宗西山派でも山城粟生光明寺，京都禅林寺などの七檀林を設け，同宗名越（なごえ）派でも下野大沢円通寺などの二檀林を開いた。…

※「江戸五檀林」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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