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  • Yadoya Mitsunori

    [宿屋光則] (n.d.)

  • yaksha

    [夜叉] (;  yasha)

  • Yakushi

    [薬師] ()

  • Yakushi-ji

    [薬師寺] (1) (2)

  • Yakushin

    [益信] (827–906)

  • Yama

    [閻魔] (, Pali;  Emma)

  • Yāma Heaven

    [夜摩天] (;  Yama-ten)

  • Yamashina-dera

    [山階寺]

  • yāna

    [乗] (, Pali;  jō)

  • Yasa

    [耶舎] (Pali;  Yasha)

  • Yashas

    [耶舎・耶輸陀・夜輸] (; Pali Yasa;  Yasha, Yashuda, or Yashu)

  • Yashodharā

    [耶輸陀羅・耶輸多羅] (; Pali Yasodharā;  Yashudara or Yashutara)

  • Yin-yüan

    [隠元] (PY Yinyuan;  Ingen)

  • yoga

    [瑜伽] (, Pali;  yuga)

  • Yogāchāra school

    [瑜伽行派] (;  Yugagyō-ha)

  • yojana

    [由旬] (, Pali;  yujun)

  • Yōkan

    [永観] (1033–1111)

  • Yokei

    [余慶] (919–991)

  • Yü-ch’üan-ssu

    [玉泉寺] (PY Yuquansi;  Gyokusen-ji)

  • Yüeh-chih

    [月氏] (PY Yuezhi;  Gesshi)

  • Yün-kang caves

    [雲岡石窟] (PY Yungang;  Unkō-sekkutsu)

  • Yūzū Nembutsu school

    [融通念仏宗] ( Yūzū Nembutsu-shū)

Yakushi-ji [薬師寺]: (1) One of the two head temples of the Dharma Characteristics (Hossō) school in Nara, Japan, the other being Kōfuku-ji temple. Both were counted among the seven major temples of Nara. Emperor Temmu (r. 673–686) vowed to build the temple in 680 to house an image of the Buddha Medicine Master ( Yakushi) for the recovery of his ailing consort. Subsequent to his making this vow, her illness was cured. Construction of the temple did not substantially progress, however, until after the emperor’s death in 686. His consort, who succeeded him as Empress Jitō, continued the project, and the temple was completed in 698 during the reign of Emperor Mommu. Originally located in the capital of that time, Fujiwara-kyō, the temple was newly built in Nara in 718 after that city became the capital. (Thereafter the original temple in Fujiwara-kyō was called Moto Yakushi-ji, or the original Yakushi-ji.) The structures of Yakushi-ji in Nara were eventually destroyed by fire, earthquakes, and wind storms, but were rebuilt in later centuries. The statue of the Buddha Medicine Master is thought to date to the late seventh or the early eighth century.
  (2) A temple that existed in Shimotsuke Province in Japan; today only its ruins remain. It had one of three Buddhist ordination platforms in the country in the mid-eighth century, the other two being at Tōdai-ji temple in Nara and at Kanzeon-ji temple in Chikuzen Province. Yakushi-ji temple was built somewhere between the late seventh and the early eighth centuries. The ordination platform was erected at the temple in 761 to conduct ceremonies conferring the Buddhist precepts upon priests and nuns living in the eastern part of Japan.


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