1. Purpose and method of study
I found a hint from Band a stone to study a garden vision and a garden time in a Garden of Daihisan Entsuji (belonging to Myoshinji sect of Rinzai school located in Iwakura-Hataeda-cho, Sakyoku, Kyoto). This study is ideologically based on the Avatamska Sutra, a history of Myoshinji temple, a chronological record of the Most Reverend Priest Fusho and so on.
2. The history of Entsuji temple and an outline of this garden Priest Tokuo Myoshu built a hermitage called Bodaiin on the historic spot of Myosenji temple located at Hataeda in Rakuhoku.The ex -Emperor Gomizunoo erected a palace called Sanso Hataeda Goten there in 1651 (Keian 4 in Japanese calendar). After that, a Buddhist nun, Enkoin Bunei, a former nurse of Emperor Reigen, received this palace and turned it into a temple called Entsuji which belongs to Myoshinji sect of the Rinzai school.
This garden is on the eastern side of the Main Hall and oriented from south to north. It covers an area of 660 square meters (about 200 tsubo). It is a flat and dry Japanese garden which makes use of Mt. Hiei as a background garden. At the top of the northeast corner lies a dry waterfall. The garden is landscaped with a gradual slope, which gently declines a westerly direction towards the Main Hall. Garden stones in the Deep Hair moss seem spread out low but standing stones and lying stones join ingeniously.
3. The Gist of the Garden
Entsuji Garden is called Bandakyo, which means the garden is made of rugged stones. The founder of this temple, a Buddhist nun, Enkoin Bunei asked Gyokuenbo of Myorenji to repair this garden during the Meireki Era (1648-51) I consider that this garden is a Zen garden of Rinzai school and that its subject manifests enlightenment of Tathagata from the Avatamska Sutra, its vision, the infinite search after Dharma, its formation, the sacred place of Avalokitesvala (Bodhisattva Compassion) in Mt. Potalaka (living place of Avalokitesvala).

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New information regarding two sutras found in the Sakuteiki; the Gion zukyo and the Fudo giki.

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