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Buddhism sacred sites in Japan
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Akechi-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Akechi-ji is the ninth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....
An'yō-in
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
An'yō-in is the third station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a small Jōdo-shū temple in Kamakura founded as Hōjō Masako's grief-prayer for her husband Minamoto no Yoritomo,...
Anao-ji
Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Anao-ji is station 21 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....
Anko-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Ankō-ji is an independent Tendai temple founded in 775 CE by Prince Kaisei on a wooded hillside north of Takatsuki....
Anraku-ji
Kamiita, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Anraku-ji is Temple 6 of the Shikoku 88, in Kamiita, Tokushima. Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing, presides here, and Anraku-ji is the only fudasho with its own onsen....
Anraku-ji
Yoshimi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Anraku-ji, the Yoshimi Kannon, is the eleventh station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage....
Araiyakushi Baishouin
Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan
Araiyakushi Baishouin (薬王寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Asuka-dera
Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan
In a quiet valley surrounded by rice fields, Japan's oldest surviving Buddha statue has watched from the same location for over 1,400 years....
Awa Kokubun-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Awa Kokubun-ji is the official kokubunji—provincial Buddhist temple—of Awa Province, founded by imperial edict of Emperor Shōmu in 741 to pray for the welfare of the...
Azabusan Zenpukuji
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Azabusan Zenpukuji (麻布山 善福寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Beppu Hells (Jigoku)
Beppu, Oita Prefecture, Japan
The Hells of Beppu have inspired awe and terror for over a millennium. These boiling, steaming pools of vivid color gave physical form to Buddhist visions of the suffering...
Bodai-ji
Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Bodai-ji is station bangai-bodai-ji on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kazan-in branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Kannon....
Boku'un-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Boku'un-ji is the sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....
Butsumoku-ji
Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Butsumoku-ji is the forty-second temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most distinctive: a Shingon temple where the principal image was carved from a camphor...
Buttsū-ji
Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Buttsū-ji — Omoto-san Buttsū-ji — is the head temple (daihonzan) of the Buttsū-ji branch of Rinzai Zen, founded in 1397 by Kobayakawa Haruhira and Zen master Gucchū Shūkyū...
Byōdō-ji
Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Byōdō-ji, Temple 22 of the Shikoku 88, takes its name from Kūkai's vow that all illness be healed equally....
Chiba-dera
Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Chiba-dera — also read Senyō-ji — is the 29th station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and Chiba City's oldest temple....
Chikurin-ji
Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Chikurin-ji crowns Mt. Godaisan above Kōchi City — a Japanese Mañjuśrī mountain modelled on China's Mt....
Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō)
Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō) is station 18 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Ikenobō / ikebana lineage temple in Kyoto dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Chōkoku-ji (Iiyama Kannon)
Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Iiyama Kannon — the local name for Chōkoku-ji on the slopes of Mount Hakusan in Atsugi — has drawn pilgrims for some thirteen centuries....
Chōkoku-ji (Shiraiwa Kannon)
Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Chōkoku-ji at Shiraiwa, the Shiraiwa Kannon, is the fifteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and one of the few remaining Shugendō-affiliated temples on the...
Chōmei-ji
Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Chōmei-ji is station 31 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon Jūichimen Kannon Shō Kannon....
Chōsen-in
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Chōsen-in — Sasado-san Chōsen-in — is the 29th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Urayama River valley of Chichibu, Saitama....
Chūzen-ji
Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Chūzen-ji, station 18 of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, sits on the eastern shore of Lake Chūzenji at 1,269 meters, beneath sacred Mount Nantai....
Daien-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Daien-ji — Ryūga-zan Daien-ji — is the 27th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Kagemori valley of Chichibu, Saitama....
Daihō-ji
Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Daihō-ji is the forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its symbolic midpoint, the Nakafudasho....
Daihonzan Eiheiji (Eihei Temple)
Eiheiji Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Hidden in the cedar forests of Fukui Prefecture, Eiheiji stands as one of the two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism....
Daihōon-ji
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Daihōon-ji, known popularly as Senbon Shakadō, holds Kyoto's oldest surviving wooden building inside the city limits — a 1227 National Treasure main hall that survived the...
Daiji-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Daiji-ji, the tenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1490 in the Yokoze hills....
Daikō-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Daikō-ji, also known as Komatsuoji, sits in farmland on a low hill in Mitoyo, Kagawa....
Dainichi-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Dainichi-ji stands directly across the road from Awa Ichinomiya Shrine, the highest-ranked Shintō shrine of Awa Province....
Dainichi-ji
Kōnan, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Dainichi-ji enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the centre of Shingon doctrine, in a wooded precinct in rural Kōnan....
Dainichi-ji
Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Dainichi-ji is Temple 4 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. It enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the center of Shingon esotericism....
Daisen-ji
Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Daisen-ji, the 29th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits high on Mt. Daisen — at 1,729 meters the highest peak in the Chūgoku region....
Daiun-in
Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Daiun-in in Tottori, the 33rd and final station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, is the route's manzanji — the place where pilgrim journeys complete....
Denzuin
Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan
Denzuin (傳通院) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Dewa Shrine and Mt. Haguro
Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Mount Haguro rises in Yamagata as the gateway to the Three Mountains of Dewa - Japan's most powerful journey of spiritual death and rebirth....
Dōji-dō
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Dōji-dō is the twenty-second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — literally 'Children's Hall,' a Shingon Buzan-ha temple where Kannon has been invoked for...
Dōjō-ji
Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Dōjō-ji is the oldest documented temple in Wakayama Prefecture, founded in 701 CE by the monk Gien at Emperor Monmu's command....
Dōryū-ji
Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 77 Dōryū-ji in Tadotsu is known on the Shikoku route as the Eye-Healing Yakushi (me-naoshi Yakushi)....
Eifuku-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Eifuku-ji sits in a quiet bamboo and cedar grove on a low hill above Imabari, the 57th stop on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage....
Eifuku-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Eifuku-ji at Taishi-chō, Osaka, guards the tomb of Prince Shōtoku — Japan's foundational royal patron of Buddhism — alongside his mother and consort in a single circular...
Ekōin Temple
Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan
Ekōin Temple (回向院) is an active Jōdo-shū Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
En'yū-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
En'yū-ji is the twenty-sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji branch with an unusual feature: the Iwai-dō, a stage-built...
Engyō-ji
Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Engyo-ji is station 27 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Enkō-ji (Myō-ō-in)
Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Enkō-ji, also known as Myō-ō-in, sits on Atago-yama above the Kusado Sengen archaeological site in Fukuyama, Hiroshima....
Enkōji
Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Enkō-ji is the thirty-ninth and final temple of the Tosa (Kōchi) section of the Shikoku 88, set in Sukumo....
Enmei-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 54 of the Shikoku henro is the first of six temples clustered around Imabari....
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