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Vairocana Buddha (Dainichi Nyorai) sacred places in Japan
Explore 6 sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Vairocana Buddha (Dainichi Nyorai) in Japan.
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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...
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....
Kōon-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kōon-ji is the 61st fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the head temple of the Shingon-shū Goki-ha sub-school....
Mandara-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Mandara-ji is the ancestral temple of the Saeki clan, into which Kūkai was born....
Yokomine-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yokomine-ji clings to the northern slope of Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, at roughly 750 m elevation....
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