The Buddha-heart relics – Koan 53
No. ’53. The Buddha-heart relics In the first year of Daiei (1521), Lord Hojo Ujitsuna built a great temple (the Sounji at Odawara) at the foot of Mount Hakone, with the idea of wresting religious supremacy from the great temples of the Kanto area (which includes Kamakura). At the time it was widely known that…