Shōgen-ji (Gifu)

Not to be confused with Shōgen-ji in Shizuoka Prefecture..

Shōgen-ji 正眼寺
Religion
Affiliation	Myōshin-ji Rinzai
Location
Location	872-2 Ibuka-chō, Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture
Country	Japan
Geographic coordinates	35°30′17″N 137°0′28″E
Architecture
Founder	Taikyoku Iitsu
Completed	1658

Shōgen-ji (正眼寺) is a monastery of the Myōshin-ji branch of Japanese Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] It was originally a place of practice of Kanzan Egen Zenji in 1330. The training monastery was established at Shōgen-ji by Settan, the dharmic successor of Tōrin.[3] Shōgen-ji's post–World War II monastic life is described concretely with the highest quality of literature in the novel Mind to Mind (1999) by author Seikan Hasegawa.

Around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Shogenji was famed between monks as one of the two most demanding zen monasteries in Japan (the other one being Bairinji in Fukuoka Prefecture).[4]

References

1. 岐阜県観光連盟. "正眼寺｜観光スポット｜岐阜県観光公式サイト 「岐阜の旅ガイド」". ぎふの旅ガイド (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-25.
2. 第２版,日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ),事典・日本の観光資源, 世界大百科事典. "正眼寺(しょうげんじ)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-25.
3. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. 1997. p. 152.
4. Living and Dying in Zazen - Book written by Arthur Braverman (Living and Dying in Zazen - Five Zen Masters of Modern Japan pp.99-100)

External links

• A relatively recent documentary of Shogenji that was broadcast in about 2020 in the Japanese tv