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English: This is the same native Japanese reading that appears in the phrase 'Yahata-gami' given in "Nihon Ryoiki" (Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition, written in the early Heian period) and 'Yahata-no-miya' given in 'Tamakazura' (Jeweled Chaplet) of "The Tale of Genji."
Japanese: 『日本霊異記』の「矢幡（ヤハタ）神」や『源氏物語』玉(タマ)鬘(カズラ)巻の「ヤハタの宮」のように「八幡」は訓読でした。
English: However, it is believed that the native Japanese reading 'Yahata' was later changed to the Chinese-derived reading of 'Hachiman' by Buddhist followers during the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism.
Japanese: のちに神仏習合して仏者の読み「ハチマン」、音読に転化したと考えられる。
English: The word 'hata' refers to a heavenly banner that signals as 'Yorishiro', a temporary lodging place where a deity is invited.
Japanese: また、「ハタ」とは「神」の寄りつく「ヨリシロ」としての「旗」を意味する言葉のようである。
English: The attempt of Empress Koken to install Dokyo as the next emperor by falsifying that a divine proclamation had been received from Hachiman via an oracle was dispatched by WAKE no Kiyomaro obtaining a new proclamation from Usa Hachiman (Usa Hachimangu Shrine Oracle Incident).
Japanese: 孝謙天皇が道鏡を次期の天皇にしようとしたときは八幡神の託宣があったと偽称し、和気清麻呂は宇佐八幡の託宣を受けてこれを阻止した（宇佐八幡宮神託事件）。
English: Since there are some records claiming that in 749, during constructing the Great Buddha of Todai-ji Temple, the senior nun, travelled to the capital Kyoto, transmitted an oracle that Hachiman was cooperating with the great Buddha's construction, it is understood that Hachiman had become a syncretistic deity in the harmonization of Shinto and Buddhism from an early period.
Japanese: 東大寺の大仏を建造中の天平勝宝元年（749年）、宇佐八幡の禰宜の尼が上京して八幡神が大仏建造に協力しようと託宣したと伝えたと記録にあり、早くから仏教と習合していたことがわかる。
English: In 781, it was given the name 'Hachiman Daibosatsu' as the deity of protecting Buddhism.
Japanese: 天応(日本)元年（781年）には仏教保護の神として八幡大菩薩（はちまんだいぼさつ）の神号が与えられた。
English: As a result, divided Hachiman has been ceremonially transferred to Buddhist temples around the country to serve as a guardian deity, then Hachiman spread throughout the country.
Japanese: これにより、全国の寺の守護神として八幡神が勧請されるようになり、八幡神が全国に広まることとなった。
English: In addition, as Hachiman has been regarded as Emperor Ojin, it is an ancestor deity of the Imperial family, then the Minamoto clan, a branch of the Imperial family, considers Hachiman as an ujigami.
Japanese: また、応神天皇が八幡神であるとされていることから皇室の祖神ともされ、皇室から分かれた源氏も八幡神を氏神とした。
English: MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi transferred the divided Hachiman deity to Tsuboi in Kawachi Province (Tsuboi, Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture) and enshrined it at Tsuboi Hachimangu Shrine as an ujigami of the Kawachi-Genji (Minamoto clan), and his son MINAMOTO no Yoshiie named Hachiman Taro after Hachiman, by celebrating his Genpuku (coming-of-age ceremony) at Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu Shrine.
Japanese: 源頼義は、河内国壷井（大阪府羽曳野市壷井）に勧請し、壷井八幡宮を河内源氏の氏神とし、その子の源義家は石清水八幡宮で元服したことから、八幡太郎義家と呼ばれた。
English: Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine owned extensive manors and it was from these areas that the worship of Hachiman spread.
Japanese: 石清水八幡宮は多くの荘園を有したため、それらの土地に八幡神信仰が広まった。
English: In 1180, when MINAMOTO no Yoritomo, who was raising an army to eliminate the Taira clan, established his headquarters in the vicinity of presently Yahata, Kise-gawa River, Shizuoka Prefecture before the Battle of Fujigawa, he had in an emotional reunion with MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune who had come from afar Oshu.
Japanese: 治承4年（1180年）、平家追討のため挙兵した源頼朝が富士川合戦を前に現在の静岡県黄瀬川八幡付近に本営を造営した際、奥州からはるばる馳せ参じた源義経と感激の対面を果たす。
English: In Kisegawa Hachiman-jinja Shrine in Shimizu-cho, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture, the stone named Taimen-ishi is placed where is said that Yoritomo and Yoshitsune met to pledge to expel the Taira clan together.
Japanese: 静岡県駿東郡清水町(静岡県)にある黄瀬川八幡神社には、頼朝と義経が対面し平家追討を誓い合ったとされる対面石が置かれている。
English: After MINAMOTO no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), he invited Hachiman to Kamakura where he was enshrined at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, and his lower-ranking vassals also invited it to their territories to serve as a guardian of samurai families.
Japanese: 源頼朝が鎌倉幕府を開くと、八幡神を鎌倉へ迎えて鶴岡八幡宮とし、御家人たちも武家の主護神として自分の領内に勧請した。
English: In 1868, the Buddhist name Hachiman Daibosatsu was banned to use by the Meiji Government.
Japanese: 明治元年（1868年）、仏教的神号の八幡大菩薩（はちまんだいぼさつ）は明治政府によって禁止された。
English: However, faith in Hachiman remained firmly rooted and, during the latter stage of the Pacific War, the air bases of Japanese army and navy flew large 'Namu Hachiman Daibosatsu' (Hail great bodhisattva Hachiman) flags, and the Hachiman was worshipped by military flight crews (especially kamikaze pilots).
Japanese: しかしその後も根強く残り、太平洋戦争末期の陸海軍の航空基地には「南無八幡大菩薩」の大幟が掲げられ、航空機搭乗員（特に特攻隊員）の信仰を集めたりもした。
English: In 720, the Hayato War broke out and the Imperial Court sought the advice of an Usa Hachiman oracle on how to suppress the uprising.
Japanese: 養老4年（720年）、隼人の乱が勃発し、朝廷はこれを鎮圧しようとして宇佐八幡に神託を仰いだ。
English: Legend has it that Hachiman said 'I will go and suppress it' and set out himself to subjugate the revolt.
Japanese: すると八幡神は、「我（われ）征（ゆ）きて降（くだ）し伏（おろ）すべし」と自ら征討に赴いたという。
English: In 749, when Emperor Shomu constructed the Great Buddha of Nara as the national symbol, Usa Hachiman rode to the capital in the same gilt-bronze Chinese phoenix palanquin, same as the Emperor's, and assisted in its construction.
Japanese: 天平勝宝元年（749年）聖武天皇が国家のシンボルとして奈良の大仏を建設するとき、宇佐八幡神は天皇と同じ金銅の鳳凰をつけた輿に乗って入京し、これを助けた。
English: Dokyo, who plotted to succeed the Imperial Throne, declared that he had received a divine proclamation from Usa-jingu Shrine naming him as the next emperor in 769.
Japanese: 神護景雲3年（769年）、道鏡は天皇の位を狙らい、宇佐神宮からその旨託宣があったと宣言した。
English: The name 'Hachiman Daibosatsu' was bestowed upon Usa Hachiman by the Imperial Court in 781 as gratitude for this service.
Japanese: この功労に感謝し、朝廷は天応(日本)元年（781年）宇佐八幡に「八幡大菩薩」の号を贈った。
English: Daibosatsu' is a Buddhist name, and in the background of the growing syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism, Usa Hachiman was regarded as the deity of guarding the country and protecting Buddhism.
Japanese: 大菩薩は仏教の号で、神仏習合の流れを背景に、宇佐八幡は鎮護国家・仏教守護の神として位置づけられた。
English: "Shomon-ki" (biography of TAIRA no Masakado) describes TAIRA no Masakado was secured the position of Shinno (New Emperor) by Hachiman Daibosatsu at a governmental agency in Kozuke Province in 939.
Japanese: 平将門は『将門記』では天慶2年（939年）に上野国（こうずけ）の国庁で八幡大菩薩によって「新皇」の地位を保証されたとされている。
English: Samurai families came to consider it as a guardian deity since Hachiman played a major role in liberating the samurai families from the dynastic system and in creating a new world different from that of Amaterasu-omikami.
Japanese: このように八幡神は武家を王朝的秩序から解放し、天照大神とは異なる世界を創る大きな役割があり、武家が守護神として八幡神を奉ずる理由であった。
English: Hachiman was a guardian deity of the Usa clan, a local ruling family in Kitakyushu, but was made the guardian of the western part of the Yamato Court after displaying numerous supernatural phenomena.
Japanese: この神は、北九州の豪族宇佐氏の守護神だったが、数々の奇端を現して大和朝廷の西方の守護神となった。
English: Reverence among the samurai class led to the establishment of Hachiman shrines all over the country from the Heian period, but as the belief spread that Shinto deities are manifestations of Buddhist deities, he began to be depicted in the form of a Buddhist priest known as 'Sogyo Hachiman-shin' (lit. Hachiman Daibosatsu in a priest style).
Japanese: 平安時代以降、武士の尊崇をあつめて全国に八幡神社が勧請されたが、本地垂迹思想が広まると、僧形で表されるようになり、これを「僧形八幡神（そうぎょうはちまんしん）」という。
English: Of the following four shrines, either 'Usa, Iwashimizu and Tsurugaoka' or 'Usa, Iwashimizu and Hakozaki' are known as the 'Three Great Hachiman Shrines of Japan.'
Japanese: 以下の四社のうち、「宇佐・石清水・鶴岡」もしくは「宇佐・石清水・筥崎」の三社を以て「日本三大八幡」と称する。
English: Shosei-en Garden is a detached landholding in Shimogyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture that belongs to Shinshu Honbyo (Higashi Hongan-ji Temple), the head temple of the Otani school of the Shin Sect.
Japanese: 渉成園（しょうせいえん）は、京都府京都市下京区にある真宗大谷派本山真宗本廟（東本願寺）の飛地境内地。
English: The site is bordered on the west by Ainomachi-dori Street, on the east by Kawaramachi-dori Street, on the north by Kami Juzuyacho-dori Street, and on the south by Shimo Juzuyacho-dori Street.
Japanese: 西は間之町通、東は河原町通、北は上珠数屋町通、南は下珠数屋町通に接する。
English: The garden's name is derived from the words 'Yuan ri she er cheng qu' (The garden becomes more venerabl and stately day by day) written by the Chinese Six Dynasties period poet TAO Yuanming.
Japanese: 園の名称は、中国六朝時代の詩人陶淵明の「園日渉而成趣」の詞にちなむ。
English: Shosei-en is also commonly known as Kikoku-tei (house of trifoliate orange) due to the trifoliate orange trees that grow around the outside of the garden.
Japanese: また、周囲に枳殻（カラタチ）が植えてあったことから、一般に枳殻邸（きこくてい）とも通称される。
English: It is believed to be the old site of Rokujo Kawara-no-in residence, which garden was modeled on the scenery of Shiogama in Oshu and created at the end of ninth century by MINAMOTO no Toru, Emperor Saga's 12th child.
Japanese: 9世紀末に嵯峨天皇の第12子源融が奥州塩釜の風景を模して作庭した六条河原院の故地とされる。
English: The site was donated to Higashi Hongan-ji Temple by Iemitsu TOKUGAWA in 1641 and made into a stroll garden incorporating shoin-shiki (study room style) architecture by Jozan ISHIKAWA in 1653.
Japanese: 1641年、徳川家光から東本願寺に寄進され、1653年、石川丈山によって書院式の回遊庭園として作庭された。
English: From the early modern period to the modern era, the garden was used as a place where the chief priest secluded or guests from foreign countries were treated and it played a major role as a detached landholding of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 以後、近世・近代を通じて門首の隠退所や外賓の接遇所として用いられるなど、東本願寺の飛地境内地として重要な機能を果たした。
English: Additionally, a dormitory (the origin of Otani University) stood at the western border of the site from 1678 to 1754.
Japanese: また、1678年から1754年の間は、西隣に接して東本願寺の学寮（大谷大学の淵源）が置かれていた。
English: The vast Ingetsu-chi Pond covers one sixth of entire area of the garden which is also dotted with elegant works including the thirteen sceneries selected by Rai San yo; a large drawing room named 'Rofu-tei'; three teahouses named 'Sochin-kyo', 'Shukuen-tei' and 'Tairitsu-seki'; and a Jibutsu-do hall (personal Buddha statue hall) of the 21st high priest Gonnyo, named 'Onrin-do'.
Japanese: 園内には、全敷地の6分の1を占める広大な印月池をはじめとする頼山陽撰の十三景が広がり、大書院の閬風亭や、漱枕居・縮遠亭・代笠席の3茶室、第21世厳如の持仏堂であった園林堂等、瀟洒な諸殿舎が点在する。
English: The garden retains the look of when it was first created but the buildings were destroyed by fire in the late Edo period and rebuilt from 1865 until the early Meiji period.
Japanese: 庭園は作庭時の姿を残すが、殿舎は幕末の罹災により焼失し、1865年以後明治初期までに再建されたもの。
English: Shosei-en Garden is open to the public all year round and used as the venue for some of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple's events.
Japanese: 年間を通じて一般に公開されており、東本願寺で行われる諸行事等の際には、種々の催しの会場として用いられている。
English: Rokusonno-jinja Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Minami-ku Ward, Kyoto City (Kyoto City).
Japanese: 六孫王神社（ろくそんのうじんじゃ）は、京都市南区(京都市)にある神社である。
English: Tsunemoto was the son of Imperial Prince Sadazumi, who was Emperor Seiwa's sixth son, and became known as 'Rokuson-o' (lit. Sixth Grandchild King) after he was the Emperor's grandchild.
Japanese: 経基は清和天皇の第六皇子貞純親王の子であり、天皇の孫であることから「六孫王」と呼ばれた。
English: The shrine has been called 'the cradle shrine of the Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan)' as it was the legitimate heir and shrine founder MINAMOTO no Mitsunaka who assembled the samurai group of the Seiwa Genji.
Japanese: 嫡子で、当社を創建した源満仲が清和源氏の武士団を形成したことから、「清和源氏発祥の宮」を称している。
English: It is considered one of the 'three shrines of the Minamoto clan' along with Tada-jinja Shrine (Kawanishi City, Hyogo Prefecture) and Tsuboi Hachiman-gu Shrine (Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture).
Japanese: 多田神社（兵庫県川西市）、壺井八幡宮（大阪府羽曳野市）と共に「源氏三神社」の一つとされる。
English: In 961, near the end of Tsunemoto's life, he expressed his last request; 'I ask to be interred on this site after my passing, as I will become a dragon god and dwell in the lake of my estate where I will pray for the prosperity of my descendants.'
Japanese: 応和元年（961年）、経基は臨終に際し、「死後は龍神となって邸内の池に住み、子孫の繁栄を祈るから、この地に葬るように」と遺言した。
English: Legitimate heir Mitsunaka constructed Tsunemoto's tomb on the shrine's current site in 963, in front of which he built a main shrine building.
Japanese: 応和3年（963年）、嫡子の満仲は現社地に経基の墓所を建立し、その前に社殿を造営した。
English: During the Kamakura period, MINAMOTO no Sanetomo's wife Hongakuni built Henjo Shinin (Daitsu-ji Temple) on the site and Rokusonno-jinja Shrine became its guardian shrine.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代、源実朝の妻の本覚尼がこの地に遍照心院（大通寺）を建立し、当社はその鎮守社とされた。
English: The reconstruction of the main building was initiated in 1700 by the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 元禄13年（1700年）より、江戸幕府により社殿の再興が進められた。
English: Daitsu-ji Temple was relocated in 1911 as its site was acquired by Japan National Railways.
Japanese: 明治44年（1911年）、国鉄の鉄道用地となったため大通寺は移転した。
English: Kosho-ji Temple was formerly an associated temple of Nishi Hongan-ji Temple but became independent as the head of the Kosho school of the Shinshu sect in 1876.
Japanese: かつて西本願寺の脇門跡であったが、1876年（明治9年）に真宗興正派として独立した際に、同派の本山となる。
English: Kosho-ji Temple has a large temple hall as the head temple, and it can be mistaken as a part of majestic Nishi Hongan-ji Temple apparently, which is located in the north of Kosho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 本山だけあって大伽藍であるが、壮大な西本願寺の南に隣接しているため、一見西本願寺の伽藍の一部と見まがう。
English: While Goeido (hall dedicated to the sect founder) of Nishi Hongan-ji Temple is so large, the hall of Kosho-ji Temple looks relatively small, however, it is quite magnificent.
Japanese: また西本願寺の御影堂があまりに大きく、興正寺の伽藍が比較的小さく感じられるが、実際には堂々としたものであると言える。
English: In 1205, the practice of exclusive nenbutsu was forbidden and the sect founder Shinran was exiled to Echigo Province, but was pardoned in 1211.
Japanese: 1205年（承元元年）専修念仏は停止され、宗祖である親鸞は越後に配流されたが、1211年に赦免された。
English: According to temple legend, Shinran returned to Kyoto in 1212, the year after he was pardoned, and established a temple named 'Kosho-ji' in Yamashina-go of Yamashiro Province, which he then left in the charge of his disciple Shinbutsu-shonin (the second head priest) before setting off to Kanto to disseminate the teaching of Amida Buddha's original vow.
Japanese: 寺伝によると、親鸞は赦免された翌年の1212年（建暦2年）に京都に帰り、山城国山科郷に一宇を創建し「興正寺」と名づけたとし、その後、親鸞はこの寺を弟子の真仏上人（第二世）にまかせ、阿弥陀仏の本願をひろめるため関東行化に旅立ったとされる。
English: However, there is little basis for the assumption that Shinran founded Kosho-ji Temple in Yamashina, as well as the fact that Shinbutsu was already responsible for Senji-ji Temple in Shimotsuke Province (present day Tochigi Prefecture) at the time of Shinran's journey to Kanto for the dissemination, and the likely theory claims that Shinran travelled directly to Kanto from Echigo.
Japanese: しかし、真仏は親鸞が関東教化に遊行した際に下野国（現在の栃木県）に建てた専修寺を任されているなど、親鸞が山科に興正寺を建てたとするには根拠に乏しく、一般的には越後より直接関東方面へ旅立ったとする説が有力である。
English: In the first stage of the legend of Kosho-ji Temple, Ryogen, believed as the seventh head priest, said it was built by Shinran, however, it is said that Ryogen in fact relocated Shinran's lodge at Kyoto's Gojo Nishinotoin and converted it into a temple around 1321.
Japanese: 親鸞が創建したとする興正寺草創の寺伝は第七世とされる了源により伝えられており、実際には、京都の五条西洞院にあった親鸞の住坊を1321年頃了源が移転するなどして寺院として開いたのではないかと言われている。
English: The temple was named 'Kosho-ji' (興正寺) after 'Koryu Shobo' (興隆正法, lit. Spreading the noble and correct Dharma) of Emperer Juntoku's order, which was associated with Prince Shotoku, and operated as a center for the dissemination of Shinshu sect nenbutsu.
Japanese: 順徳天皇から聖徳太子にまつわる「興隆正法」の勅願を賜り、これより寺号を「興正寺」とし真宗念仏宣布の根本法城とした。
English: Around 1328, Ryogen relocated the temple as a basis of the preaching activities to Shirutani (or Shibutani) of Kyoto (in the area where Kyoto National Museum now stands), the former Buddhism-oriented place, and he put his efforts into promulgating the teachings throughout western Japan using a sacred light inscription of the name of Amida Buddha, a pictorial genealogy and Kyomyo-cho (a document with many names listed).
Japanese: 1328年（嘉暦3年）前後、了源は、教化活動の拠点を旧仏教の盛んな京都に移すべく寺基を京都汁谷（渋谷）（しぶたに）（京都国立博物館の辺り）に移し、光明本尊・絵系図・交名帳を用いて西日本一帯の布教活動に力を入れた。
English: This name was derived from a dream that Emperor Godaigo had in which he saw a beam of light shining from the southeast where the wooden statue of Amitabha stolen from Kosho-ji Temple later appeared, and this miraculous event is also said to have been connected to the decision to relocate the temple to Shibutani in Kyoto from Yamashina.
Japanese: この寺号は、後醍醐天皇が東南の方向から一筋の光りが差し込むという夢を見たという場所に、興正寺の盗まれた阿弥陀如来の木像が出てきたという霊験に由来し、これを縁に山科より京都渋谷に寺基を移したとも言われる。
English: Later moved into Higashiyama in Kyoto, the more prosperous Bukko-ji Temple became, the stricter Enryaku-ji Temple of Tendai sect suppressed on it.
Japanese: その後、寺基を洛中東山に移し佛光寺は益々隆盛となったが、それとともに天台宗延暦寺の弾圧が強まった。
English: In 1481, Kyogo (later renamed Renkyo), who was to succeed as the fourteenth head priest, became devoted to Rennyo of Hongan-ji Temple and established a new 'Kosho-ji Temple' in Nishino of Yamashina before returning to Hongan-ji Temple that was in Yamashina at the time along with influential branch temples.
Japanese: さらに1481年（文明_(日本)13年）には、14世を継ぐべき経豪（後の蓮教）が本願寺の蓮如に帰依し、山科西野に再び「興正寺」として創建、有力末寺と共に当時山科にあった本願寺に帰参した。
English: The remaining Bukko-ji Temple rapidly went into decline and Hongan-ji Temple rose to prominence instead.
Japanese: 残された佛光寺の寺勢は急激に衰え、代わって本願寺が台頭するところとなる。
English: Renkyo put great effort into preaching their nenbutsu teachings with Rennyo of Hongan-ji Temple, but in August, 1532, both Yamashina Hongan-ji Temple and Kosho-ji Temple were burned down by fires of war.
Japanese: 蓮教は本願寺の蓮如と力をあわせて念仏弘通に奔走したが、1532年（天文(元号)元年）8月、山科本願寺と共に兵火にかかって興正寺は焼失。
English: In 1569, Kenson, the second son of Kennyo of Hongan-ji Temple, joined the priesthood of Kosho-ji Temple and was appointed associated chief priest of Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 1569年（永禄12年）、興正寺に本願寺顕如の次男顕尊が入寺し、石山本願寺の脇門跡に任ぜられる。
English: Luckily the image of Shinran was saved and fifteenth chief priest Renshu enshrined it at the Jodo Shin shu Kosho-ji Temple along with the grand Tendai Sect Tenma Hongan-ji Temple with its large buildings in Tenma of Osaka in 1585.
Japanese: 1585年（天正13年）第15世蓮秀は幸いにつつがなきをえた真影を供奉して、天台宗の寺があった大阪天満の地に、広大な堂舎を配した天満本願寺と共に浄土真宗興正寺として法燈をかかげた。
English: In 1591, during the time of seventeenth chief priest Kenson (head priest of Hongan-ji Temple and the second son of Kennyo), Kosho-ji Temple and Hongan-ji Temple were moved to their current locations in Shimogyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City as part of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI's Kyoto city plan.
Japanese: 1591年（天正19年）第17世顕尊（本願寺門主・顕如の次男）の時に、豊臣秀吉による都市計画の一環で、本願寺と共に寺基を現在の京都市下京区に移す。
English: Since Renkyo, both Kosho-ji and Hongan-ji operated as a single temple, but in 1876 the twenty-seventh head priest Honjaku resolved to adhere to the Koryu Shobo and declared Kosho-ji Temple an independent temple of the Kosho school of Shinshu sect.
Japanese: このように蓮教以来、興正寺は本願寺と行を共にしていたが、1876年（明治9年）、第27世本寂は興隆正法の実を挙げるべく、真宗興正派として独立した。
English: Construction of the main hall took 128 years to complete and the magnificent building was considered to be one of the Three Great Architectural Structures of Japan along with the mausoleum at Tosho-gu Shrine in Nikko and the Sanmon gate at Chion-in Temple, but almost the entire temple complex, including the main hall, was burned to the ground in an accidental fire in November 1902.
Japanese: 本堂は起工から128年の年数をかけ、日光の本廟・知恩院の三門とともに、日本三建築の一つと称せられた壮大華麗な大伽藍であったが、1902年（明治35年）11月、不慮の火災により、本堂その他ほとんどを灰燼に帰する不幸が起る。
English: The twenty-eighth head priest Honjo soon began rebuilding work and the current temple complex was completed on the same site in 1912.
Japanese: 第28世本常は直ちに再建の工を起こし、1912年（明治45年）、現在の両堂大伽藍が同寺地に完成した。
English: During the time in which the temple was situated in Kyoto Shibutani (from the latter half of the 1300s to the first half of the 1400s), it was far more powerful than Hongan-ji Temple of the same sect, Jodo shin shu (True Pure Land Sect).
Japanese: 京都渋谷（しぶたに）に寺基があった頃（1300年代後半～1400年代前半）は同じ浄土真宗の本願寺を大いにしのぐ勢力があった。
English: The first character the of temple's name is ordinarily written using the simplified character for 'Buddha' (仏) but the correct character to be used for both the temple and school name is in fact the traditional character (佛).
Japanese: 通常は「仏光寺」と表記されるが、正しくは寺名・派名ともに「佛光寺」である。
English: In 1205, the practice of exclusive nenbutsu was forbidden and the sect founder Shinran was exiled to Echigo Province.
Japanese: 1205年（承元元年）専修念仏は停止され、宗祖親鸞は越後国に配流された。
English: According to temple legend, Shinran returned to Kyoto in 1212, the year after he was pardoned, and established a temple in Yamashina-go, Yamashiro Province, which was named 'Kosho-ji' (興正寺) (or Koryu Shobo-ji (興隆正法寺)) after 'Koryu Shobo' (興隆正法, lit. Spreading the noble and correct Dharma) of Emperor Juntoku's order, which was associated with Prince Shotoku.
Japanese: 寺伝によると、親鸞は赦免の翌年の1212年（建暦2年）に京都に帰り、山城国山科郷に一宇を創建し、順徳天皇より聖徳太子にまつわる「興隆正法」の勅願を賜り、「興正寺」（興隆正法寺）と名づけた。
English: This temple was to become Bukko-ji Temple, which Shinran left in the charge of his disciple Shinbutsu before setting off to Kanto to disseminate the teaching of Amida Buddha's original vow.
Japanese: これが後の佛光寺で、親鸞はこの寺を弟子の真仏にまかせ、その後、阿弥陀如来の本願をひろめるため関東行化に旅立ったとされる。
English: However, there is little basis for the assumption that Shinran founded Kosho-ji Temple in Yamashina and the likely theory claims that Shinran travelled directly to Kanto from Echigo.
Japanese: しかし親鸞が山科に興正寺を建てたとするには寺伝以外の根拠に乏しく、一般的には越後より直接関東方面へ旅立ったとする説が有力である。
English: The direct predecessors of the Bukko-ji religious group were the Araki follower (third head priest Genkai) and Azabu follower (fourth head priest Ryokai).
Japanese: 佛光寺教団の直接の母体は武蔵国の荒木門徒（3世源海）、阿佐布門徒（4世了海）である。
English: It appears that in reality Kosho-ji Temple was founded around 1321 by the supposed seventh head priest Ryogen and was moved its bases to western Japan.
Japanese: 実際の興正寺は1321年頃、第7世とされる了源により開かれたようで、これを契機に西国に拠点を移す。
English: Along with Hongan-ji Temple of enlarged Shinran mausoleum, Bukko-ji Temple became a center for the dissemination of Shinshu nenbutsu to the Kinki region and western parts of Japan.
Japanese: 親鸞の廟所が拡大した本願寺と並び、畿内以西の真宗念仏宣布の根本法城となった。
English: Around 1328, Ryogen relocated the temple as a basis of the preaching activities to Shirutani (or Shibutani), in the area where Kyoto National Museum now stands, of Kyoto Higashiyamathe of former Buddhism-oriented place.
Japanese: さらに1328年（嘉暦3年）前後、了源は、教化活動の拠点を旧仏教の盛んな京都東山に移すべく京都国立博物館の辺りの汁谷（しるたに。または渋谷＝しぶたに）に寺基を移した。
English: The temple's name was derived from a dream that Emperor Godaigo had in which he saw a beam of light shining from the southeast where the wooden statue of Amitabha stolen from Kosho-ji Temple later appeared.
Japanese: 佛光寺の寺号は、後醍醐天皇が東南の方向から一筋の光りが差し込むという夢を見たという場所に、興正寺の盗まれた阿弥陀如来の木像が出てきたという霊験に由来する。
English: The temple was therefore given the name 'Amida Bukko-ji' (lit. Amida Buddha's Light) and this miraculous event is also said to have been connected to the decision to relocate the temple to Shibutani in Kyoto from Yamashina.
Japanese: これにより「阿彌陀佛光寺」の勅号を賜り、それを縁に山科より京都渋谷に寺基を移したともいわれる。
English: With the cooperation of Zonkaku and under the influence of the Jishu Sect, Ryogen put his efforts into promulgating the teachings throughout western Japan using a sacred light inscription with the name of the Amida Buddha, a pictorial genealogy and Kyomyo-cho (a document with many names listed).
Japanese: 存覚の協力と時衆の影響の下、光明本尊・絵系図・名帳などの媒体を用いて布教活動に力を入れた。
English: Kakunyo, the head priest of Hongan-ji Temple, felt threatened by this and criticized in "Gaijasho" (Notes on Correcting Heresies) that things such as the pictorial genealogy were not things of the Shinshu sect.
Japanese: これに危機感を抱いた本願寺覚如は、『改邪抄』で絵系図などを真宗にあらざるものと非難している。
English: It is described in "Honpuku-ji Atogaki" (a record book of Honpuku-ji) that Bukko-ji grew increasingly prosperous, with many people visiting to worship at the temple, while Hongan-ji Temple fell into ruin.
Japanese: こうして佛光寺は隆盛をきわめ、諸人はこぞって参詣に訪れ、一方の本願寺は荒れ放題であったという（『本福寺跡書』）。
English: Kyogo (later renamed Renkyo), who was to succeed as the fourteenth head priest, became devoted to Rennyo of Hongan-ji Temple in 1481 and established a new 'Kosho-ji Temple' in Nishino of Yamashina before returning to Hongan-ji Temple along with 42 of the 48 influential branch temples.
Japanese: さらに1481年（文明_(日本)13年）には、14世を継ぐべき経豪（後の蓮教）が本願寺の蓮如に帰依し、山科西野に再び「興正寺」として別に創建、48坊のうち42坊など有力末寺とともに本願寺に帰参してしまった。
English: The remaining six influential branch temples recalled Kyoyo, Kogo's younger brother, back from Chion-in Temple to serve as the fourteenth chief priest of Bukko-ji Temple.
Japanese: 残った有力末寺6坊は、経豪の弟経誉を知恩院からよび戻し、佛光寺第14世とした。