Obakusan (English name) Huang-bo-shan

Japanese: 黄檗山 - おうばくさん（英語表記）Huang-bo-shan

A mountain in Anxi County, Fujian Province, China. It is so named because it produces a lot of Phellodendron amplexicaule (→Obaku), which is used for medicine and dye. In the 5th year of the Zhenyuan era (789) of the Tang Dynasty, Zen Master Shokan founded the Prajna Hall here. Later, Zen Master Kiyun (Obaku Kiyun) appeared and made the name of Obaku famous, and during the Song Dynasty it flourished as a major Rinzai Buddhist training center. During the Yuan Dynasty, it temporarily declined, but the Ming Emperor Wanli bestowed upon it an imperial plaque bearing the name "Manpuku Zenji," the entire Tripitaka, and an internal purse, which allowed the temple to be rebuilt. Ingen Ryūki lived here and it flourished for a time, but later fell into decline. In 1654, Ingen traveled to Japan to escape the rebellions that were occurring at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, at the urging of the chief priest of Sufuku-ji Temple in Nagasaki, Itan Seiyu, and others. He built a temple of the same scale as Obaku-san in Uji, Yamashiro Province, and named it Obaku-san Manpuku-ji Temple.

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Japanese:

中国の福建省安渓県にある山。薬や染料となるキハダ（→黄蘗）を多く産するところから，この名がある。唐の貞元5（789）年，正幹禅師がここに般若堂を創建。その後，希運禅師（黄檗希運）が出て黄檗の名を有名にし，宋代には臨済宗の大道場として繁栄。元の時代に一時衰えたが，明の万暦帝から「萬福禅寺」という勅額と大蔵経全部と内帑金（ないどきん）を賜り，それによって諸堂を重建した。隠元隆琦が住んで一時盛んになったが，のち衰退した。承応3（1654）年，隠元が明末～清初の乱を避け，長崎の崇福寺住持，逸然性融らの懇請によって訪日し，山城国宇治に黄檗山と同規模の堂宇を建立，名称も同じく黄檗山萬福寺とした。

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