Enzan

Japanese: 縁山 - えんざん
Enzan

...One of the six major head temples of the Jodo sect. It is called Sanenzan Kodoin Zojoji, or Enzan for short. It is said to have begun in 1393 (4th year of Meitoku) when the eighth patriarch of the Jodo sect, Seisou, converted the Shingon sect's Komyo-ji Temple, located in Kaizukadai Tsubakuzawa, Toshima County, Musashi Province (currently near Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda Ward), renamed it Zojo-ji Temple, and made it the central training center for spreading the Nembutsu....

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Enzan" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…浄土宗六大本山の一つ。三縁山広度院増上寺,略して縁山という。1393年(明徳4)浄土宗第8祖聖聡が,武蔵国豊島郡貝塚台局沢(現,千代田区平河町付近)にあった真言宗の光明寺を改宗して増上寺と改名,念仏弘通の中心道場としたことにはじまると伝える。…

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