Kōyasan Shingon-shū

Kōyasan Shingon-shū (高野山真言宗) 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.^[1] The main temple is Kongōbu-ji.^[2] As of 2007^[update], there are nearly 4,000 affiliated Kōyasan Shingon-shū temples in and beyond Japan.^[2] There are missions in North America and Hawai'i specifically that function as non-profit arms of the section.^[3]

References

1. Nicoloff 2007, p. 350.
2. Nicoloff 2007, p. 166.
3. Lee, Jonathan H. X.; Matsuoka, Fumitaka; Yee, Edmond; Nakasone, Ronald Y. (2015-09-01). Asian American Religious Cultures: [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 791–794. ISBN 978-1-59884-331-6.

Bibliography

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