Kofukuji temple was the first of the Zen Buddhist temples built by the Chinese (1620) after the Tokugawa shoguns had outlawed Christianity and ordered citizens to register as Buddhists.
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The first of the Zen Buddhist temples contructed by the Chinese was called the Kofukuji temple.
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The Kofukuji temple was constructed by the Chinese in the late 1500s.