西山 is an East Asian name meaning "Western mountain" or "Western mountains".
西山 may refer to:
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Xishan (disambiguation) Xishan may refer to the following locations in China:
*Western Hills (西山), mountain range in the west of Beijing
*Western Mountains (西山), mountain range located 12 km west of Kunming in Yunnan
*Xishan (, ''Xīshān'', lit. "Tin Hill"), ...
(xīshān), the Chinese pinyin transliteration
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Nishiyama (disambiguation) Nishiyama(surname) ( ja, 西山, "western mountain") may refer to:
People with the surname
*Hidetaka Nishiyama, American martial arts exponent and founder of Shotokan
* Kazutaka Nishiyama, Japanese baseball player
*Keiki Nishiyama, Japanese volley ...
, the Japanese transliteration of native Japanese reading
* Seizan, Japanese transliteration of borrowed Chinese reading
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Shōkū
, sometimes called , was a disciple of Hōnen, founder of the Jōdo-shū Buddhist sect. Shōkū later succeeded Jōhen, another disciple of Hōnen, as the head of a former Shingon Buddhist temple, Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji, Eikandō, established a separ ...
, Buddhist monk, also called Seizan
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Seizan is a branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism that was founded by Hōnen's disciple, Shōkū. Shōkū often went by the name ''Seizan'' as well, however the name derives from the western mountains of Kyoto where Shōkū often dwelt. The main temple of this b ...
, Buddhist sect, named for the monk
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