Abstract
As I have described in the previous paper, the features of the Buddha halls of the main Zen monasteries in their golden age (14th c.) were their square plan (7 by 7 including pent-house-aisle), their composition as the Buddha hall complex and their inner composition which separated the chancel area from the space for worship. Compared with them, the existing Budd hahalls of Zen style built in from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century are small in scale. There remain thirty-seven Buddha halls, three founder's halls and two sutra halls now. I would like to try in this paper to classify them according to their numbers of bays and examine the characteristics of each type.
