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Unusually, there are also a number of French-themed attractions – the peak itself features the Garden Museum Hiei, which is themed on French impressionism, featuring gardens and French paintings, while there is also a French-themed hotel, "L'hotel de Hiei" (The Hiei Hotel). The mountain is busiest
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Japan (8th - 12th centuries) meant that the mountain and the temple complex were politically powerful and influential. Later schools of Buddhism in Japan were almost entirely founded by ex-monks of the Tendai sect, such as
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The attractions on the mountain are quite spread out, so there are regular buses during the daytime connecting the attractions. The center for these is the bus center, in front of the entrance to the main temple complex at
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chronicling the practice of walking long distances – up to 52 miles (84 km) a day for 100 straight days, in an effort to attain enlightenment. The practice of walking is known as the
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and a toll road provides access by automobile to the top of the mountain; there are also buses that connect the mountaintop to town a few times a day. There are also two routes of
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Beyond the mountain itself, its forests, and the views it affords – of Kyoto, of Ohara, of lake Biwa and Shiga – the main attraction is the temple complex of
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area near the northernmost end of Mount Hiei. Due to its remoteness, as a temple complex it experienced periods of revival and decline, starting with
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during the daytime, but has some visitors in the evenings, for light-up displays and to see the night view of the surrounding towns.
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in 788 and rapidly grew into a sprawling complex of temples and buildings that were roughly divided into three areas:
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Mount Hiei has been featured in many folk tales over the ages. Originally it was thought to be the home of gods and
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Genshin's Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan (Pure Land Buddhist Studies)
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area, also near the summit, where Enryaku-ji Temple was first founded, and located just within
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Photos of Mount Hiei and the three precincts of Enryakuji Temple
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in 1571 to quell the rising power of Tendai's warrior monks (
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lore, although it is predominantly known for the Buddhist
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Due to its position north-east of the ancient capital of
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Saicho: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School
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was named after this mountain, as was the more famous
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A 2010 US National Public Radio report described the
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from the Kyoto side to the connecting point with an
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