A kaisan-dō, also termed the Founder`s Hall, is a temple structure in a Japanese Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding abbot and other significant teachers and Buddha ancestors are kept, along with a memorial slab (J. ihai). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (J. soshido) or Reflectio.... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisando