Kōyasan Shingon-shū explained

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. The main temple is Kongōbu-ji., there are nearly 4,000 affiliated Kōyasan Shingon-shū temples in and beyond Japan. There are missions in North America and Hawai'i specifically that function as non-profit arms of the section.^[1]

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Bibliography

• Book: Nicoloff, Philip L. . Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha . 2007-11-08 . State University of New York Press . 978-0-7914-7929-2 . en.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lee, Jonathan H. X. . Asian American Religious Cultures: [2 volumes] ]. Matsuoka . Fumitaka . Yee . Edmond . Nakasone . Ronald Y. . 2015-09-01 . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 978-1-59884-331-6 . 791–794 . en.