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Kyōto-shi, Japan
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Japan, 〒616-8035 Kyōto-fu, Kyōto-shi, Ukyō-ku, Hanazonomyōshinjichō, 1 大本山妙心寺
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N35° 1' 23" E135° 43' 13"
(35.023055555556, 135.72027777778)
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Myōshin-ji (妙心寺, Myōshin-ji) is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, and head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. The Myōshin-ji school is by far the largest school in Rinzai Zen, approximately as big as the other thirteen branches combined: it contains within it about three thousand five hundred temples throughout Japan, together with a handful overseas, of the approximately six thousand total Rinzai temples, and also has nineteen associated monasteries, of the total of forty monasteries and one nunnery.
