Monzeki

{{Short description|Japanese Buddhist priests of aristocratic or imperial lineage}} {{Italic title|reason=:Category:Japanese words and phrases}}{{Nihongo|2=門跡|3='''Monzeki'''}} were Japanese Buddhist priests of aristocratic or Imperial lineage.<ref>{{cite book|last=Conlan|first=Thomas|title=From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-977810-2|pages=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TF-YI8JlwDIC}}</ref> The term was also applied to the temples in which they lived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adolphson|first=Mikael|title=The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan|year=2000|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=0-8248-2263-3|pages=71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjT8_78YAwAC}}</ref>

An example of a ''monzeki'' temple is Daikaku-ji in Kyoto.

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