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  1. Sōji-ji Temple Reconstruction Badges/大本山總持寺再建祠堂章

    Sōji-ji /總持寺/ is one of two daihonzan /大本山 - "head temples"/ of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism. The temple was founded in 740 as a Shingon Buddhist temple. Keizan, later known as Sōtō's great patriarch Taiso Jōsai Daishi, founded the present temple in 1321, when he renamed it Sōji-ji with the...
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