Shingon-shū Chizan-ha - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

or Chizan is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese grouping of Shingon Buddhism

Shingon Buddhism

is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra...

. Among the other groupings of Shingon Buddhism

Shingon Buddhism

is Buzan-ha

Buzan-ha

is a Japanese Shingon Buddhist sect, founded in the 16th century by the priest . The main Buzan-ha temple is Hase-dera in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture....

. It is headquartered in Chishaku-in Temple in Kyoto

Kyoto

is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

. Naritasan Shinshōji Temple

Narita-san

Narita-san Shinshō-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple located in central Narita, Chiba, Japan. It was founded in 940 by Kanchō Daisōjō, a disciple of Kōbō Daishi...

in Narita

Narita, Chiba

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the site of Narita International Airport, the main international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area....

is also an important temple and has been founded in 940. Chizan-ha belongs to Tantric Buddhism.

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