Background
Raifu Gonda was born in Niigata Prefecture, he became a priest of the Shingon Sect when he was six years old.
Raifu Gonda was born in Niigata Prefecture, he became a priest of the Shingon Sect when he was six years old.
After the Meiji Restoration (1868), he left the temple and turned to the Soto Sect. He, however, came back to the temple.