A General Study of The temple town (Monzen-Machi) of Zenkoji

我们分析了长野市作为禅宗寺的寺庙小镇。研究结果总结如下：1。禅寺对长野市的社会经济影响正在减弱。目前，长野市作为长野县的行政和经济中心正在不断发展。通过对中世纪参拜禅宗寺的文献资料进行分析，研究禅宗寺的路线。长野市是禅宗的寺庙所在地，而瓦拉纳西市是印度教的圣地，我们比较了禅宗信仰的特点。比较了伊斯兰教的朝圣和基督教的朝圣。日本有很多信禅寺，我们参观了其中的一些，并拍摄了照片制作幻灯片作为教材。

We analyzed Nagano City as the temple town of Zenkoji. The results are summarized as follows :1. Socio-economic effects of the Zenkoji Temple on Nagano City are decreasing. In the present, Nagano City is growing as it is the administrative and the economic center in Nagano prefecture.2. The documents on worshippers who visited the Zenkoji Temple in the middle ages are analyzed to study the route to the Zenkoji Temple.3. Nagano City which is the temple own of Zenkoji and Varanasi City which is the sacred place of Hinduism are compared to cosider the characteristic of the Zenkoki's faith. The Islamic pilgrimage and the Christian pilgrimage are compared.4. There are many Shin-Zenkoji in Japan, we have visited some of them and take pictures to make slides for teaching materials.