Five Mountains
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- For the Five Great Zen Temples in Kamakura and Kyoto, see Five Mountain SystemFive Mountain SystemThe system, more commonly called simply Five Mountain System, was a network of state-sponsored Zen Buddhist temples created in China during the Southern Song Dynasty . The term "mountain" in this context means "temple" or "monastery", and was adopted because many monasteries were built on isolated...
. The same relates to the Japanese Zen temple ranking system. - For the Five Mountains literature, see Japanese Literature of the Five MountainsJapanese Literature of the Five MountainsThe literature of the Five Mountains is the literature produced by the principal Zen monastic centers of the Rinzai sect in Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan. The term also refers to five Zen centers in China in Hangzhou and Ningpo that inspired zen in Japan. The term "mountain" refers to Buddhist monastery...
. - For the Five Mountain Peaks in Chinese culture, see Sacred Mountains of ChinaSacred Mountains of ChinaThe Sacred Mountains of China are divided into two groups, one associated with Taoism and the other with Buddhism. The group associated with Taoism is known as the Five Great Mountains , whereas the group associated with Buddhism is referred to as the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism .The sacred...
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