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Mount Kōya

Mount Kōya (Kōyasan), in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is the monastic complex established by Kūkai in 819 as the headquarters of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, which he had founded after studying in Tang-dynasty Chang'an. It remains the seat of Shingon and a major pilgrimage centre.

Teachers who lived here