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| Tradition | |||||
| It is the right Buddhism which was initiated by Shakamuni Gautama and handed down by all the past priests of high virtue in each country. It was brought to Japan in A.D. 538. Nisshinzenji temple is doing its best for religion activity of a believer and an area. BUDDA main name is reciting of NAMU-SHAKA-MUNIBUTU. The sutras are Hannya-Shingyo, Shushougi and Kannonkyo etc. |
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| History | |||||
| The founder of a Nissinzenji temple is a Buddhism clergyman called Gokeisoukaku.Nissinzenji temple was built between from 1558 to 1569(Eiroku-nenkann all year). The name of the principal image of Buddha was Seishi-Bosatu Bodhisattva However, it was burned down when Hondo（Main holes）was burned down according to the fire of the Toyohashi air raid on June 19. After war, the Nissinzenji temple became unrelated to the Head office Ryunenji temple called head temple. Furthermore, the main hole was again built by wooden. The Nissinzenji temple was recognized by the law of a religious corporation in 1954(Showa 29). It was obtained as ferro-concrete structure in 1968 (Showa 43). Furthermore, the first floor was made into Hondo. Moreover, the second floor was made into the drawing room, and the third floor was made into the Ihaidou (Buddhist image room) and Fukuonji temple. The new construction was celebrated. By completion of the repair in 1989 (Heisei 1), it was called high-tech temple equipped with the picture and stained glass like a hotel. |
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| Otera no sigoto（Religious Work） | |||||
| Religious service, funerals, chuin, ancestor,anniversary of death, spring/autumn equinocal week, Bon festival of Buddhist service, energy omission, and various ceremonies are held.At present we can use the cemetery of the Nissinzenji temple for prayers. Those interested, please enquire by phone. We pray for wishes of the heart, traffic safety, academic success, business success, good health, prosperous household, good relationships, warding off of calamities. Please enquire by phone beforehand. The Buddha marriage ceremony, Shinto ground-breaking ceremony,ceremony of putting up the ridgepole,and celebration of newly built temple type each safe construction prayer store opening prosperity prayer and a coming of age ceremony meeting, and others are held Please apply by telephone in advance. |
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| Dannsinnto（Practices and believers） | |||||
| The practices and believers of Nissinzenji temple can help initiate anyone within our prescribed procedure. Please feel free to enquire. | |||||
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| Syugyou（Practice） | |||||
| Practice of a Nissinzenji temple can be performed. Please send mail. The procedure specified on the occasion of acceptance is required. A foreigner and 18 years old or less are welcomes. |
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| About visiting a temple Sannbuki Stainedglass （Three important scenes of Gautama） |
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| Koutane (Nativity Memorial) | |||||
 The day when Shakamuni-Gautama was born April 8, 565 B.C. It is the Flower Festival.In a previous incarnation where Bodhisattva Miiou lived in Tosotuten Buddha descended into the body of the child of Maya on Earth. Maya is said to have conceived during a nightmare in which a white elephant with 6 tusks entered her womb. The Buddha,(Taishi SHIDDARUDA of a KAPIRA garden)with SUDDODANA as the father, and princess MAYA as mother, was born in a flower garden in Rumbini on April 8 Immediately after birth. Buddha walked seven steps by himself and articulated the famous words "I am the only one Buddha above and below the heavens". |
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| Jyodoe (The day of enlightenment) | |||||
| The day when Buddha attained spiritual enlightenment December 8, 530 B.C. Before becoming a monk. When he left the gates of the castle grounds, he saw people's life, ageing, sickness and death, realising deeply the transient nature of life,he committed himself to monkhood. Taishi SHIDDARUDA decided to enter monkhood at the age of 29, following Channa, riding the white horse Kantaka to leave the castle grounds on the night of a full moon.  SHIDDARUDA, following the principles of asceticism and fasting as the paths to enlightenment, devoted himself to training with unworldly men.However, SHIDDARUDA drank goat milk which the daughter of a village brought, and was excluded from the group of the unworldly men. Despite this, he meditated under the Bo tree, fought the intruding demons in his mind, and on the 49th day finally renounced his worldly desires, reaching enlightenment after 6 difficult years at the age of 35. |
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| Nehane (Anniversary of Buddha's death) | |||||
| The day when Buddha passed away February 15, 485 B.C. Both the Buddhas that obtained spiritual enlightenment carried out the first preaching （Sermon） to five ascetics, MANNYAKONDANNYA which carried out penance once, ASSAJI, MAHANAMA, BATTINA, and VAPPA.  After Buddha preached for 45 years, he passed away under the tree at the age of 80. When he was cremated his bones were divided into 8 pieces and distributed to eight nations (MARRA fellows of the MARRA fellows and KUSHINAGARA of a Brahman pay bar with the KORIYA fellows and beta DIPA of the yellowtail fellows and the Rama village of the Shaka fellows and ARRA raincoat of RITCHABI fellows and KABIRAE of King AJASE and Bayh Shah Lee of a MAGADA country) including a MAGADA country. After Buddha's death, in order to hand down his teachings, his disciples held an important meeting to compile his sutras, that is to say, it has been compiled 4 times. Buddha's virtue of the deceased can be remembered by the above stained glass. |
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| Mangan sekibutugun （The stone statue of the Buddha of 100 which completes a wish） |
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| There are about 100 stone statues of the Buddha for the fulfillment of various prayers such as the warding off of calamities, fulfillment of great wishes etc, and everyday they are crowded with masses of men and women of virtue who worship a hundred times daily (100 worships x 100 statues = 10000 prayers fulfillment of a vow). A projected to win prayer stone statue of the Buddha is effective also in public lottery and an election. |
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| Sanbosatuitutai kannon （The three Kannons-one piece-an intermediary and prayer are completed） |
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| A Kannon facing north was installed on the roof of a temple bell, and within the body of this, a shaman during his training at Mikawa Bay made a discovery, and at Miyuki town, dedicated the deified Kanno of the auspicious height of 8 suns（24cm）. Right beneath that was installed the Seikannon , made easy to access from the road, the 3 KannonBodhisattva became one and is the Kannon who protects your souls as one. | |||||
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| Syorou（Bell tower） | |||||
| It is in a high place 15m above ground. A bell with a weight of about 2 tonnes, rang once at 8:00 a.m, twice at 10:00am, at noon 3 times, 1:00pm once, 3:00pm 3 times, 5:00pm 5 times. This is controlled by computer and rings accurately everyday, telling the time to nearby regions. The New year's bell is rang 108 times, breaking through worldly desires and welcoming the new year. Now, the method is changed so that ringing for the prayers of good luck for all is done by computer. Computer ringing can by done by anyone through the home page. As for ,anyone can do computer from a Bell tower page. Also, it can be rang usually as a bell for the prayer of better fortune for everyone. New Year's Eve.108 worldly desires. New Year's Eve on December 31 is said to be "the night which wipes away the worldly desires for the past year." Bells on New Year's Eve are rang 108 times for the following reasons. Worldly desires are wiped away except for the heart which repents a sin. People have 108 worldly desires. These are attachment, and any feelings or sentiments that you want to part with or throw away. This is to part with the following kinds of worldly desires and it can be said to be a ritual to enable embracement of the new year. Let us welcome the new year with a cleansed heart. The 108 worldly desires are, the following: 18 types of A, adding the 18 types of B multiplied by the 36 within the three dimensions (past/present/future). The 18 A's are: the 6 senses (eye,ear,nose,tongue, body,mind) describing the workings of the human body, and to this multiply these three: like/dislike /neutrality (good, bad, neither). The 18 B's are: the 6 dust (colour, voice, fragrance, taste, touch, object) categorised as human perception, and multiplied with this, the 3 of pain/joy/abandon (painful, joyful, neither), muddying the formerly pure heart. |
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| Fudasyo and Reijyo（Amulet issuing office） | |||||
| *Toyohashi Gosinai Kouboudaisi（Toyohashi city Kobo Daishi）...The No. 2 amulet issuing office. *Sinsaikoku Toyohasi 33kannon（The new west country 33 Kannon）... The No. 7 amulet issuing office. *Siawase Jizou（Fortunate Jizo holy place）...Fortunate Jizo. *Yoshida sitifukujin（Yoshida Seven Lucky Gods）... Extra amulet issuing office (Dharma daishi).*Manngann Sekibutugun（Fulfillment of a vow stone statue of the Buddha）. *Sanbosatu Itutai Kannon〔It is really （3 bodhisattva） the Kannon〕 =Kitamuki Kannon(Kannon for north). |
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| Pictures | |||||
| Tens of Fumio Takeo painter's pictures are exhibited in the main hall, and calm the hearts of visitors to the temple.In the artistic world of Kanto, he is a popular painter. We also receive pictures for the Nissinzenji temple's calendar which are done by him. |
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| Gutikiki goya （Discussion Corner.only for Japanese） |
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| Introduction of a matrimonial partner is also carried out free of charge. Please send by email stories of fresh love, wonderful weddings, and joyful chatter and also various troubles and worries. The chief priest will respond to your discussions. This is strictly confidential and free of charge. | |||||
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| Otera no gyouji（Annual events） | |||||
| January 1 Syusoe(coming of age prayer meeting) January 26 a Dogen Koso Zen priest birthday February 15 Nehane (Buddhisthood attainment meeting) Vernal Equinox Day Spring equinoctial week(Buddhist services Mass for the dead) April 8 Koutane(Buddha's birthday meeting) July 29 Sichifukujin day(Seven Lucky Gods' day) August 13〜15 days Bon festival (Festival of the dead) August 15 Memorial day for the deceased Keizan Taiso Zen priest Autumnal Equinox Day Autumn equinoctial week(Buddhist services Mass for the dead) September 29 Memorial day for the deceased Dogen Koso Zen priest October 5 Memorial day for Bodhidharma November 21 a Keizan Taiso Zen priest birthday December 8 Jyodoe(Buddha's spiritual enlightenment meeting) December 31 New year's eve temple bells |
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| Syoukou saho（Incense manners） | |||||
| Usually, incense is 2 times. 1. The method is, joining the palms together first and then bowing once. 2. A scent is pinched with the right hand, and you leave a left hand to the front of the face (nose) as it is, and then offer the incense holding it to your forehead and then burning it.This is called the main scent. 3. The second time is called Jukou, and with the right hand, you pinch a scent, and leaving it as it is, burn the incense directly. 4. Lastly, joining the palms together worship is carried out. As visits involving funerals with lots of people have a limited timeframe, it is fine to simply put your heart into burning the main scent once. When burning the incense, you bow to the priest once and then burn it. If this bowing is done while waiting to burn the incense, everyone can smoothly get the incense burning done. Except for the priests, everyone burns the incense without hitting any cushions. |
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| Meisin (Superstition-Abolish customs which are not good) |
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| The customs which have spread among funerals such as "purifying salt" and "TOMOBIKI friend pulling day" was decided by the Yokkaichi city Buddhism meeting that it has nothing to do with the teachings of Buddhism and this was published in a newspaper on May 26th in the 10th year of Heisei. It is a superstition that these customs are no good. According to the article, traditional Buddhism expressed in agreement that from now on in the administrative authorities and funeral service companies there will be movements in order to renew the customs such that "deceased people are considered corrupt, and this is linked to misunderstanding. " After this decision, within the distributed documents it was recorded that "in Buddhist funerals purifying salts are not used. It is also unnecessary to be caught up with "friend pulling day"." As a reason for this, it was determined that "As soon as the parents, friends or anybody close had passed away while the person is still living, "purifying salts" are used," and also "he worry that the deceased may be pulling their friends, people come to hate the words of "friend-pulling day" from this the thought that the deceased are corrupt originated. So it is said that "People try to drive far away anything to do with ill circumstances, and so the superstitions surrounding "purifying salts" and "friend-pulling" were born from one's own mind. The purpose is to spread the religious ceremonies. In people's comments it was also said that "we do not know the merits of abolishing "purifying salts" but "we held a funeral service on "friend pulling day" and bad luck followed so."" so the responsibility also lies with society as a whole. In the 21st century, let us hold Buddhist funeral services and memorial services following the original Buddhist teachings but without the bad superstitions. |
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| Btudan and Ohaka（Buddhist altar and A grave ） | |||||
| Direction of a grave and a Buddhist altar north, south, east and west the direction does not matter. Although there are those who say south facing is good since it receives sun light, how about in the southern hemisphere? In case of group housing such as apartments, it is an exception due to its structure,so a place that would not be stepped upon from an upper floor would be fine. With direction being irrelevant for graves and Buddhist alters, it is important to visit it everyday and keep it clean. It is not good for the grave to become neglected or to leave the doors of the Buddhist altar unopened. It is most important to visit and pray in gratitude to one's ancestors. |
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| Eitaikuyo（Permanently held memorial service ） | |||||
| There are the following permanent memorial services for the dead. This is the method in case there are worries that the ancestors may one day have no caretaker and in case one does not want to cause worry to other members of the family and if one wants to offer money to the temple beforehand. There are the following methods. 1. Offering money beforehand if there is a chance that in the future there will be no caretaker for the ancestor. 2. At present, it is more often that a posthumous Buddhist name is given to the deceased person, but the name is offered while the person is still living. It is good to decide the name while the person is still living. 3. Offer money for the funeral to the temple while the person is still living (including money for posthumous Buddhist name). 4. Offer money for the Buddhist memorial service while person is still living. 5. Offer all of the above 4. As mentioned above, there is no need to offer again if the offerings are done while the person is still alive Further, in the charity direction, one more volume is kept in this temple, and the second is inputted into a computer, and I hold a memorial service rightly in an emergency. |
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| Muzai no sitise（7 givers of goodness） | |||||
| The 7 givers of goodness (carrying out seven sort=Sitisyuseinen). It is a way of living happily without money or posessions. 1. Gens People are touched by the gentle eye. 2. Wagense=Etujikise It touches by the smiling face. 3. Gonnjise It touches in easy language. 4. Sinse It serves that it can do with its own body. 5. Sinse It becomes partner's man's heart and sympathizes. 6. Syouzase A seat is yielded. 7. Bousyase Your house is cleaned up.Let other people stay at your house. |
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| Directions | |||||
| The following red bus/train depots in the public transportation information provided below, are the closest to the temple. *Alighting a city streetcar "Fudaki", "Shinkawa", "Shiyakusho-mae", and "Toyohashi-koen-mae". *The Toyotetu bus Shinsiro-syako line,Wadatuji-higasi line,Ejima-sita lain、Suse lain etc. "Fudaki" "Gofukumach","Kannnt" alighting *The Toyotetu-bus Iwata-danchi line,Nisiguchi line, Futagawa line, etc. "Maeda-basi" "Shinkawa" alighting. *It is on foot 10 minutes from the Toyohashi station to the east. *In case of "my car", enter into Toyohashi city centre from the Toyokawa interchange, and go left at the Segami traffic light crossing at National Highway No.1, Cross the Toyo-kawa River (Yoshida-oohasi bridge), and you will see the Toyohashi city office on your left, go straight through the Nishihachicyo traffic light crossing, and enter the National Highway No. 259 ,and you will see NTT on your left, and go straight through the Fudaki traffic light crossing at the street car crossing, then turn left at the second Uomachi traffic light crossing, then as you see the Shinmei- koen Park on your right heading east, go through the first traffic signal, then soon the temple will be a 3 storey building on your right. *Also, park your car at the underground parking space "Park 500" at Ekimae-odori( Before a station Main street) west of the Toyohashi post office in Shinkawa-cyo. The temple is 3 minutes walk from the "North 3 exit". |
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| Sanpai jikan（Opening hours for the main hall） | |||||
| The main hall of Nissinzenji temple is open as a rule at the following hours, so please also visit the buddhist image room tablets in the buddhist image room hall on the 3rd floor before or after visiting the graveyard. January to March and December is from 7:30am to 4:00pm. April to November it is from 7:00am to 4:00pm. On the day of the Bon festival, it is open on August 13th, from 6:30am to 7:00pm and on August 15th, from 6:30am to 7:00pm. Please refrain from visiting the graveyard at night to prevent any crimes. You can visit at any time except at night. Please telephone before visiting afterhours as the doors of the main hall are closed afterhours for safety reasons. Also in case of telephone enquiries you may call from Monday to Friday from 7:00am to 12:00pm and from 1:00pm to 4:00pm except on a national holiday. Please refrain from calling particularly on Saturdays, Sundays and on national holidays from 10:00am to 1:00pm as we are very busy with Buddhist memorial services. |
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| Address | |||||
| 9, Shinyoshi cho, Toyohashi shi, Aichi ken Japan Postcode 440−0871 |
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| A telephone, E-mail and HP | |||||
| Telephone 186-0532-54-5558 E-mail mail@111-940.com URL http://www.111-940.com/ |
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| Postcode 440−8691 Nissinzenji Postal code number entry is address needlessness. Ｅ-mail mail@111-940.com ・ Ｃｐ-mail gen111940@ezweb.ne.jp |
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| The ancestor One day thank you also for today. Thank you for father, mother, a wonderful smile I appreciate for my lifetime. Thank you. |
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| （I believe in practical Buddhism.） | |||||
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| Thank you honourable ancestor,for another day. |
