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THe Koya sect of the Shingon sect Amida Nyorai Tokao Donari-tho Itano-gun Tokushima Pre.771-15 Japan 0886-95-2150 JR It is 8 Km from Kamoshim of Tokushima line. |
The history Kobo
Daishi realized Amida Nyorai at a ravine in the inner part where is three kilometers from
here, Jurakuji valley of today, he carved a camphor tree, he made the seated figure of
Amida Nyorai which is 1.9 meters high, he made it the principal image of Buddha and opened
Jufakuji temple, named it Komyozan Jurakuji temple because he wished that people escape
eight pains which man has and get ten preasuer of the land of Perfect Bliss, and he
decided to make it the seventh Buddhist temple. After that it was destroyed by fire of war
of Chosogabe's army, it was moved to the present place in 12 the Kanei era (1635). The
main temle at the time was the tiny building roofing whith thatch, the present main temple
was rebuilt in the Maiji era. |
fine view If you though the gafe bell tower og the beautiful vermilion-lacguerred which suggestices of the Palace of the Dragon King in a fairly-tale world in the same way as Anrakuji of the sixth Buddhist temple and go through the middle fate, the excellent pine terrs grow thick in the spacious precinects, beyound those there is the spacious main temple whith its back to a mountain. There is Hojo, Kyakuden (the temple for visitors) on the right-hand side of the main temple, if you go up the stone steps on the left-hand side of the fornt of the main temple, there is Taishido at the orer high place, all buildings are worthy of the 88 Buddist temple in Shikoku and the buildings with a distincthive quality. It is that here was the temporary palace for Tsuchimikado Joko (retired emperor), it is called Gosh village formerly. Joko was exiled to Hata in Tosa at shokyu on ran(12211), after that he lived from place to place in the provinece of Awa for eight years, and it was a piey that he killed himself at thirth-seven years old so young. |
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