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Jetavana (monastery in ancient India)
A monastery near the ancient Indian city of Śrāvastī, donated to the Buddha, where he often stayed and preached. In Japan the name is known above all from the famous opening line of The Tale of the Heike.
Cultural note
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語) opens: 祇園精舎の鐘の声、諸行無常の響きあり (the bell of Jetavana echoes the impermanence of all things). Japanese schoolchildren learn the passage by heart, so the name instantly calls up the theme of impermanence and the fall of the proud.
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The 祇園 district of Kyoto and its Gion Festival take their name from the same source, through a shrine whose deity was linked to Jetavana, but the monastery itself was in India.