華け厳ごん宗しゅう

noun

Kegon school of Buddhism

A major school of Japanese Buddhism based on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (華厳経). The term is a proper noun referring to the sect itself.

• 華け厳ごん宗しゅうは奈な良ら時じ代だいに日本にほんに伝つたわった。

  The Kegon school was introduced to Japan in the Nara period.

• 東とう大だい寺じは華け厳ごん宗しゅうの大だい本ほん山ざんである。

  Tōdai-ji is the head temple of the Kegon school.