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Kōyasan Shingon-shū

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Kōyasan Shingon-shū (高野山真言宗) is a Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism. Headquartered on Mount Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture, it is also the oldest and largest of the eighteen Shingon sects in Japan.[1] The main temple is Kongōbu-ji.[2] As of 2007, there are nearly 4,000 affiliated Kōyasan Shingon-shū temples in and beyond Japan.[2] There are missions in North America and Hawai'i specifically that function as non-profit arms of the section.[3]

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  1. ^ Nicoloff 2007, p. 350.
  2. ^ a b Nicoloff 2007, p. 166.
  3. ^ Lee, Jonathan H. X.; Matsuoka, Fumitaka; Yee, Edmond; Nakasone, Ronald Y. (2015-09-01). Asian American Religious Cultures: [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 791–794. ISBN 978-1-59884-331-6.

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