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Count Ōtani Kōzui (大谷 光瑞, 27 December 1876 – 5 October 1948) was a Japanese Buddhist leader and explorer who was the 22nd Abbot of Nishi Hongan-ji and the head of the Honganji-ha sect of Buddhism.
Practitioner of religion. Born in Kyoto. He entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 10, and is known as Takamaro, his childhood name, Kyonyo, his Buddhist name, and finally, Kozui, his posthumous name.
Feb 25, 2023 · Ōtani Kōzui, also known as Count Ōtani Kōzui, was a highly regarded Japanese Buddhist leader and explorer. He was the 22nd Abbot of Nishi Hongan-ji, a prominent Buddhist temple in Japan, and was also the head of the Honganji-ha sect of Buddhism.
The 1902 Ōtani expedition was a Japanese archaeological expedition to a series of Silk Road sites in the Taklamakan Desert, led by Count Ōtani Kōzui and lasting from 1902 until 1904. The expedition aimed to study the early transmission of Buddhism through Central Asia into China, and conducted major excavations in the Kucha area.
Ōtani Kōzui (1876–1948), a prominent figure of 20th century Japanese history, was the 22nd patriarch of the Honpa Honganji denomination of the Buddhist Jōdo Shinshū sect (True Pure Land or Shin Buddhism) and the chief-abbot of its head-temple, Western [Nishi] Honganji, Kyoto.
Jul 23, 2022 · The mastermind behind these Japanese enterprises was Ōtani Kōzui, the 22nd lord-abbot of the Western Honganji temple in Kyoto and the patriarch of the Honpa Honganji denomination of the Jōdo Shinshū sect, which was and remains the largest Buddhist community in Japan.
Aug 6, 2021 · The head of the Nishi Honganji sect of Jōdo Shinshū at the time, Ōtani Kōzui, was deeply intrigued by Buddhism’s spread along the Silk Road and other routes and turned to acclaimed scholar and...
