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Ennin

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Ennin 円仁

born 794, Tsuga District, Shimotsuke Province, Japan
died Feb. 24, 864.
He was born as a member of the MIBU 壬生 family.


http://www.hieizan.or.jp/enryakuji/econt/access/mother/koso/ennin.html

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Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師
(794 – 864)

He was born in Shimotsuke (present day Tochigi Prefecture) and began his religious training at age nine. Later he went to Mt. Hiei and became a disciple of Saichoo, founder of the Tendai sect.

In 838, after two failed attempts due to bad weather, he reached China as one of the student-monks. He departed from the official mission and travelled alone with his servants in various areas of China and Korea, keeping his keen eyes on the local culture. He described everyday life in the temple and the market place and wrote detailed about customs and institutions, administration and politics, like a modern-day ethnographer. His famous diary was translated by Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, the “The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law” (Nittoo Guhoo Junrei Kooki). He returned to Japan after nine years.

On his return, he established many rituals special to Tendai, the so called “Secret Tendai Teachings” (taimitsu 台密).
He also brought back special rituals to chant the prayers for Buddha Amida, the five-tone nembutsu recitation (jogyodo nembutsu), which is still practised widely in the Tendai communities.

At age 61, he became the third head of the Tendai sect at Mt. Hiei after Saicho. Posthumously the title Jikaku Daishi was installed upon him.

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Legend of his statue, told in Meguro, Joju-In 成就院


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Daijiji、Daiji-Ji   大慈寺 

Daiji-Ji is formally known as Onodera-san Tenpou-rin-in Daijiji and was built by the priest Gyouki Bosatsu (668-749) in 737 in what is now Iwafune-machi, Tochigi Prefecture. It is a very large temple built on spacious grounds, and it is said that as many as several thousand monks trained there.

It is also famous as the temple where the monk Jikaku Daishi Ennin (793-864) underwent training for six years from 9 to 15 years of age. Ennin later became the fourth Chief Abbot of Daijiji. Furthermore, Daijiji is familiar as having ties with the renowned Heian beauty, Ono no komachi.

Jikaku Daishi Ennin 慈覚大師仁円
The third head of the Tendai sect in Japan, Jikaku Daishi Ennin, travelled to T'ang China as a member of the last Imperial Buddhist envoy. He nurtured the Tendai sect in Japan, and is one of the great figures in whom Japan holds great pride.

When Ennin was about 9 years old, he began his studies at Daiji ji and eventually went to Mt. Hiei, where he became a disciple of Saichoo. At 43 years of age, burning with the desire to complete Tendai mikkyo in Japan, he travelled to T'ang China. His record of his journey, Nittou Guhou Junrei Kouki (The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law 入唐求法巡礼行記) is Japan's first real travel diary, and its value is said to be higher than even Marco Polo's (1254?-1324) Touhou Kenbun Roku (The Travels of Marco Polo).

Ennin gave up personal ambition to devote his life to ceaselessly pursuing pure Buddhist ways for the sake of saving the people and keeping alive the flame of Buddhism in Japan. Even 1200 years later, he continues to move us deeply, and his teachings are still carried on.

Ennin departed for T'ang China, originally for a short period of learning, with strong hopes of completing Tendai mikkyo, as well as of resolving the Enryakuji Miketsu Sanjuh Jou (thirty unsolved problems among monks at Enryakuji). This "short period" eventually became a great adventure spanning nine years.

On crossing to T'ang China, Ennin applied himself to the Buddhist teachings. Unfortunately, the Imperial envoy could not receive permission to go to Mt. Tendai, the source of the Tendai teachings in China. However, Ennin's determination to pursue "the Law" was strong, leading him to eventually part company with the official entourage to continue his travels on his own.

Travelling in a foreign land without proper permits was dangerous and full of unimaginable hardships. Yet, Ennin, his two disciples, Yuishoo and Yuigyoo, and a servant, Yoborono Omaro, were able to reach Mt. Godai, a Buddhist site as sacred as Mt. Tendai. (Wutaishan (五臺山)

After their pilgrimage to Mt. Godai, the group headed for Chang'an, the world's largest city at the time. Their schooling in Chouan, particularly with respect to esoteric Buddhism mikkyo, was highly fruitful, but was, sadly, marred by the death of the disciple Yuigyo at the early age of 32.

Ennin's grief at losing his dear disciple, with whom he had undergone such a difficult journey, was great. He faced yet further hardship in the form of "Kaishoo no haibutsu", the suppression of Buddhism, by the T'ang Emperor Busoo. Despite suffering an endless milieu of life-threatening situations, Ennin's firm belief in his own safe return finally became reality when, after nine and a half years, he set foot again in his home country.

Ennin's account of his journey, Nittou Guhou Junrei Kouki, is, as noted above, the first travel book written by a Japanese. It has great value as a historical document, and is now widely known outside of Japan.

Upon returning to Japan, Ennin applied what he had learned in T'ang China to spreading and nurturing Saichou's Tendai Buddhism. Always with hopes of lasting peace in Japan, he continued his work to save the souls of the people by spreading his teachings and building many temples. This also contributed to the advancement of regional culture. It was also during this time that Ennin became the fourth Chief Abbot of Daijiji.

At the age of 61, Ennin was appointed the third head of the Tendai sect at Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei. For the ten years until he passed away of fever at the age of 71, he devoted his life to the continuation of Saichou's ideals and the growth of Enryakuji.

Two years after his death, in 866 (year 8 of the Jookan Era) on July 4th, the Imperial Court bestowed upon Ennin the rank of Hooin Daikashoo and the holy name Jikaku Daishi.
This name and the name Dengyoo Daishi given to Saichoo were the first holy names given in Japan.

The well-known student of Japan, Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer (1910-1990; former US ambassador to Japan), is also famous for his research on Ennin. Dr. Reischauer rates Nittou Guhou Junrei Kouki extremely highly. In his thesis, he even goes so far as to state that of the world’s three great travel books―Genjou’s (602-664) Saiyuuki (Journey to the West), Marco Polo’s Touhou Kenbun Roku and Ennin’s Nittou Guhou Junrei Kouki―Nittou Guhou Junrei Kouki has incomparable historical value.

Ennin's Diary
THE RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE TO CHINA IN SEARCH OF THE LAW
Ennin's Travels in T`ANG CHINA

Daijiji
Onodera 2247, Iwafune-machi,
Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture,
Japan 329-4314
http://www.cc9.ne.jp/~daijiji/~daijiji.english.html

慈覚大師円仁修行の寺
大 慈 寺 , 小野寺山
日本語
http://www.cc9.ne.jp/~daijiji/index.html

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Tendai and Ennin



The first Zasu or leader of the sect after Saicho, and Abbot of Hiei-zan Enryakuji (the chief temple of the order), was the monk Ennin. Born into the Mibu clan from the province of Shimotsuke, Ennin’s chief contribution to the development of the Tendai-shu came from a nine-year pilgrimage to China, where he both studied at Mt. T’ien T’ai, as well as received further esoteric teachings and instruction from the same schools where Kukai received the mikkyo rites of the Shingon school.

Returning to Japan, Ennin developed Tendai esoteric ritual beyond the legacy received from Saicho, establishing the system of Tendai-specific esoteric rites known today as Taimitsu. Another significant practice which Ennin brought back from China was the chanting of the Nembutsu, the devotional repetition of the phrase, “Homage to Amida Buddha,” as a means of generating merit and ensuring rebirth in the “Western Paradise” of Amida Buddha, where conditions for the attainment of Enlightenment and Nirvana are optimal.
The practice of both Taimitsu and Nembutsu thus became salient features of Tendai Buddhism in Japan.

History of Tendai Buddhism
http://www.tendai.org/i_tendai_buddhism/history.html

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Five-tone nembutsu recitation

Ritual practices conducted at the Tendai center on Mt. Hiei employed Amida Buddha as an object of worship. Tendai practice based on the Lotus Sutra was also intermingled with the nembutsu practice, which in this context refers to visualized meditation on Amida Buddha.

Saicho's disciple Ennin (794-864) continued this trend when he went to T'ang China to study with Fa-chao on Mt. Wu-t'ai, and brought back to Japan a practice of five-tone nembutsu recitation. This practice was incorporated into the "Constantly Walking Samadhi" (jogyo zanmai), a ninety-day walking meditation of the Tendai school in which the practitioner circumambulates an image of Amida while chanting the nembutsu in order to visualize Amida Buddha. (Fukuda, 257-263 & Ando, 191-93) "Constantly Walking Samadhi" (jogyo zanmai) is one of the four forms of samadhi described in the Mo-ho-chih-kuan.

T'ien-t'ai synthesized the various types of meditation referred to in the sutras and classified them into these four categories:
to sit in meditation for a period of ninety days without engaging in any other practices (joza zanmai);
to walk around the statue of Amida Buddha reciting the nembutsu for ninety days (jogyo zanmai);
to engage in the two practices of walking around the meditation platform and seated meditation(hodo zanmai);
and to practice continious meditation (higyo hiza zanmai).

On Mt. Hiei, Fa-chao's five-tone nembutsu became known as the jogyodo nembutsu because it was cerfamed in a hall specially constructed for the constantly walking samadhi, called the jogyodo. Tendai monks customarily recited the Lotus Sutra in the morning and performed nembutsu practice in the evening.

This was the basic form of religious practice on Mt. Hiei during the Heian period (794-1192). Ennin's introduction of the five-tone nembutsu was also significant in that it marked the introduction of the recited nembutsu to Japan.
http://www.jsri.jp/English/Honen/LIFE/Tendai/development.html

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Shangjing Longquanfu,
the Capital of the Bohai (Parhae) State, Korea


As we have seen, there was also a P’o-hai Inn in Teng-chou, presumably for embassies going from and to that East Manchurian kingdom. The people of P’o-hai were Tungusic ancestors of the later Manchu Emperors of China and like the Koreans were busily engaged at this time in creating a small replica of the T’ang Empire in their far northern forests.

— E. O. Reischauer, Ennin’s Travels in T’ang China, 1955, p.280.

Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist priest, traveled in China to study Buddhism from 838 AD to 847 AD. In his travel diary, he recorded that there was a Bohai Inn in Dengzhou on the coast of Shandeng Peninsula and that a trading vessel from Bohai was anchored near the coast of the peninsula.

The Bohai (Parhae in Korean) State was a kingdom that existed from 698 AD to 926 AD in the northeastern part of today’s China. It was formed by the Tungusic people in association with the refugees from Koguryo, which had fallen in 668. It actively imported Chinese culture and political systems and boasted a high standard of civilization. At a time when it was bringing tribute to China, it also dispatched many envoys to Japan across the sea.
http://www.hgeo.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soramitsu/Dongjingcheng.html

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Wu Tai Shan is widely known not only to the people of China but also to Buddhists in Japan, India, Sri Lanks, Burma, Tibet and Nepal. Wu Tai's Buddhism is indissolubly tied up with that of Japan and had a great influence on that country. Seeking after the Buddhist truth, such famous monks as Ennin and Ryoosen in the Tang Dynasty, and Choonen and Seisan in the Song Dynasty made long pilgrimages to Wu Tai Shan. The Tantric master Amoghavajra also came to meditate here.

Look at some nice pictures of Wu Tai Shan
http://www.sacredsites.com/asia/china/sacred_mountains.html

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Chinese Anthropology in Japan

The Japanese ethnological study of China began long before the establishment of anthropology towards the end of the last century. Interest in China has been important among the Japanese people in general. The origins of ethnographic documentation of China by the Japanese might be traced back to the diary of Ennin, a Buddhist monk who stayed in China during the Tang dynasty for ten years (838-847). The diary can be evaluated as a piece of good ethnography for it covers not only his observation of Buddhist temples, rituals and priests, but also geography, folk customs, and the institutional aspects of economics, administration, politics and so on.

It is valuable not only because it is a rare record of that time, but also because it is a vivid sketch of the scene that he encountered. He had the eyes of an observer or sojourner rather than of a traveller. He spent more pages depicting the particular than the general. To this extent, the quality of his description is closer to that of a monograph, even though it is not a general description of one community. I think the reasons for its closeness to ethnography are the result of the similarity in his interests and situation with those of the anthropological fieldworker.

He stayed long enough, he learned the local language, he had a strong curiosity about the strange, he was interested in process, rather than fixed rules, and, instead of merging into the local society like his colleague Ensai, his identity, as a Japanese, remained that of a foreigner.

Chinese Anthropology in Japan: Suenari Michio


The Dates of the Life of Ennin (Nenpyo 年表)
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~kanden/data/ennin.html



天台宗 祖師先徳鑽仰大法会
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37 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's really interesting resource! I have written one post about Japan, but I decided to make it about Japan travel, I'm really interested in culture, but I have not enough knowledge yet:)
But I enjoyed reading! Thank you!

Gabi Greve - Basho archives said...

Matsuo Basho traveling in Oku -

Risshakuji 立石寺 Risshaku-Ji, Yamadera 山寺
in Yamagata

Founded by the great priest Jikaku, this temple was known for the absolute tranquility of its holy compound.

. shizukesa ya iwa ni shimi-iru semi no koe .

Gabi Greve said...

Hoozooji 宝蔵寺 Hozo-Ji
栃木県宇都宮市大通り四丁目 - Utsunomiya town

founded by Ennin

http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/05/hozo-ji-tochigi.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Aizu Tohoku Fudo Temples

龍興寺 - 離悩不動 - rinoo Fudo - to part from troubles
大刀剱不動 - Fudo with a large sword
Ryuukooji 龍興寺 Ryuko-Ji
会津美里町中町 - Aizu, Misato

Founded in 848 by priest 慈覚大師.
Famous for its lotus pond and a lotus sutra with each letter on a lotus pedestal 一字蓮台法華経.
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Gabi Greve said...

Fukushima, Aizu


高田不動 - Takada Fudo
Jidoosha Fudo 自動車不動 "Fudo in a car"

Nr. 33 会津薬師寺 - 高田不動尊 Takada Fudo Son
Aizu Yakushi-Ji - Takada Fudo Son

The temple started out humbly as a sanctuary called 千寿院 Senju-In in the year 779.
Later in 848 Priest Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 Ennin built the first temple.
In 1190 円鑁沙門 rebuilt the temple and added the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂, giving name of "Yakushi Temple" 薬師寺 to the complex.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/06/takada-fudo-aizu.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Aikyoo-In 愛敬院 Aikyo-In
駒場滝不動尊 Komabataki Waterfall Fudo
滝入不動尊 / Komaba no taki 駒場の滝 Komaba Waterfall

30 愛敬院 本山修験宗 - 駒場滝不動尊 Komabataki Fudo
Aikyoo-In 愛敬院 Aikyo-In Komabazan 駒場山

Miyagi Fudo Pilgrimage Nr. 30
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The statue of Fudo Myo-O has been carved by Jigaku Daishi more than 1100 years ago. He built the temple to protect the region from evil influence in the unlucky "Demon Gate" (鬼門 kimon) Northern direction. He carved the statue and placed it into a cave of the cliffs around the waterfall.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/06/aikyo-in-miyagi.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Toonoo shichi Kannon 遠野七観音 Seven Kannon Temples of Tono

These seven temples have been built by Ennin.

He took one huge tree and carved seven statues out of it.
According to legend, Ennin carved them near the well Nanaido 七井戸 at the village Zawanokuchi 沢の口部落 and purified them there.
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http://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2014/07/tono-pilgrims.html

Gabi Greve said...

Saikooji 西光寺 Saiko-Ji
at Akiu Hot Spring

宮城県仙台市太白区秋保町馬場字大滝11
Ōtaki-11 Akiumachi Baba, Taihaku-ku, Sendai-shi
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Priest Ennin tried to built a temple at the mountain 長嶺山 near the waterfall, but could not succeed the first time. He continued his pilgrimage in Tohoku, toward the mountains of Dewa and in860 founded the famous Yamadera 山寺.
On the way back he was again stopped by the powerful energy of the waterfall and the forest and this time carved a statue of Fudo Myo-O himself. He established this temple as the "Oku no In" of Yamadera.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/07/saiko-ji-sendai.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Matsushima
Seiryuzan Zuigan-ji 青龍山 瑞巌寺
Godai-do Hall 五大堂
founded by Ennin in 828.
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http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.jp/2008/03/matsushima.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Kannonji 観音寺 Kannon-Ji
宮城県気仙沼市本町 1-4-16 / 1 Chome-4-16 Motomachi, Kesennuma-shi

In 850 慈覚大師 Ennin Jigaku Daishi built a small hall and founded a temple near the beach, Kaigan Kannon-Ji 海岸山観音寺.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/07/kannonji-miyagi.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Iitaka Kannon 飯高観音

Ena Valley in Gifu 恵那峡 - 岐阜県
山岡町の妙法山萬勝寺

One of the three big Kannon of Japan
日本三大観音の一つ

Venerated to prevent calamities and fires.
The statue has been carved by Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/08/ena-valley-gifu.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Founder of temple

Tamonin 多聞院 Tamon-In
秋田県秋田市土崎港南1-14-16
1 Chome-14-16 Tsuchizakiminatominami, Akita city

and his disciple
Ane, An-E 安慧 (795 - 868)
student of Ennin Jigaku Daishi at Mount Hieizan.
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/09/tamon-in-akita.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Akita, Oga Hanto
He founded

Nr. 10 赤神山 / 幸福山 - 吉祥院 - 波切不動尊 Namikiri Fudo
Kisshoo-In 吉祥院 Kissho-In

and
Akagami Jinja 赤神神社
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http://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2014/09/kisshoin-akita.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Tales from Uji; Chapter 9; pgs. 311-314

During the reign of the emperor Tang Wuzong, practicing Buddhism and any other religion was difficult. In fact, the document describes (whether it is historically accurate or not) a Tye-Dying castle in which Buddhist were hung and their blood was drained from their body for the use of dying cloth.
Even if the statement may be false, the brutality of the government was definitely expresesed in a way that was definitely terrorizing. Eventually, Jikaku fled the terrible land, and then soon afterwards spread Buddhism to Japan and strengthened its hold there. Remember, the story is a folktale, so some occurrances may seem ridiculous and far-fetched, but that is the essence of these tales.

The topic of the source is Buddhist monk Jikaku's (Ennin) expeditions throughout China during and after the reign of Tang Wuzong.
During the time of his rule, Tang Wuzong created a policy that severly suppressed foreign religions such as Zoroastrianism, Christianity, but most importantly Buddhism. As a result of the new law, many Buddhist monasteries were pillaged and attacked by the government. The author of this source is unknown; however, the source was written in Japan.

The source was created from about 1070-1200 CE, from about two to four centuries after the national policy was carried through. The intended audience of the passage is most likely Japanese Buddhists who revere the monk Jikaku in order to place as an even holier man than he might have been.

The author wishes to glorify Jikaku in the folktale as a significant holy man. The piece of work can be most likely placed into the group of religious documents. The missing voice is a Chinese Buddhist that can place his perspective into the document that question the Japanese Buddhist belief.

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http://schulzkiclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/16533637/Post-Classical%20Primary%20Source%20Readings
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Gabi Greve said...

and the full story of the

75 - the Dyeing Castle
by Japanese Tales
By Royall Tyler
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googlebooks

https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=6XCyr_e2-UoC&pg=PT330&lpg=PT330&dq=tyler+japanese+tales+Mimasaka&source=bl&ots=YTmPtBqBZ5&sig=GO7dkzS41ElIdHu2Di-9uHlY35I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dJgbVZm9GpDc8AXcpIH4BA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Dyening%20Castle&f=false
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Gabi Greve said...

and the full story of the

75 - the Dyeing Castle
by Japanese Tales
By Royall Tyler
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googlebooks

https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=6XCyr_e2-UoC&pg=PT330&lpg=PT330&dq=tyler+japanese+tales+Mimasaka&source=bl&ots=YTmPtBqBZ5&sig=GO7dkzS41ElIdHu2Di-9uHlY35I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dJgbVZm9GpDc8AXcpIH4BA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Dyening%20Castle&f=false
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Gabi Greve said...

Founder of temple
Mootsuji 毛越寺 Motsu-Ji in Hiraizumi, Tohoku


http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.jp/2005/12/matarajin-deity.html
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Gabi Greve said...

a legend from Tokyo

When Jigaku Daishi set out for a pilgrimage to the East he stayed first some time at 浅草寺 the Asakusa Temple. Once day an old man with white hair appeared and told him, that in the East there was 霊地 a sacred place where he should place a statue of himself. So he prepared a statue and set off to the East. Suddenly he saw auspicious clouds all in one place and then a 青竜 green dragon in the clouds.
So Ennin founded a temple here for the dragon. The dragon was happy about this and then his features dissolved again in the sky.
But from time to time there were 竜燈 dragon lights in the area now.
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more about
zui-un moyo 瑞雲文様 auspicious cloud art motives

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http://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2016/06/zui-un-auspicious-clouds.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Ennin He made Banji and Banzaburo his disciples.
At 二口峠 Futakuchi Pass
万二万三郎
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http://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.jp/2016/07/mukade-centipede-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

tokko, dokko 独鈷 と伝説 Legends about the Vajra Thunderbolt
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http://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.jp/2016/08/tokko-dokko-vajra-thunderbolt-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Statue of Yakushi Nyorai at the temple

醫王山 / 薬王山 Yakuozan 遍照院 Henjo-In 三念寺 Sannen-Ji
Tokyo
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2017/02/gofunai-temples-34-and-35.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Saitama
The 竜門寺の不動 Fudo from Temple Ryumon-Ji disappeared every night, went down to the village and disturbed the people. Eventually a brave samurai cut off his hands.
He is now known as 手なし不動 "Fudo with no arms".
The statue was carved by Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師
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Fudo Legends
https://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2017/10/fudo-legends-08-oita.html
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Gabi Greve said...

His statues at Meguro Fudo and Otori Jinja
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https://fudosama.blogspot.jp/2005/12/meguro-fudo-temple.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Statue of Yakushi Nyorai, Statue 147 cm, All is 387.9 cm.

福満寺 Fukuman-Ji
長野県東筑摩郡麻績村山寺 / Yamadera Hi, Omi-mura, Higashichikuma-gun, Nagano
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2017/11/yakushi-and-fudo-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Tottori Kurayoshi, Sakura village 倉吉市桜
大日寺は寺伝に承和8年(841)Temple Dainichi-Ji
Statue by Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864)
慈覚大師円仁の開基、永延2年(988)恵心僧都の再興とされる。
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2018/02/yakushi-legends-10-tochigi-tokushima.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Iwate Hiraizumi - Motsu-Ji 毛越寺
Legend of the White Deer - hakuroku 白鹿
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https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2016/01/hakuroku-white-deer.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Tokyo 江北山 Kobokuzan 宝聚院 Hoju-In 清水寺 (せいすいじ) Seisui-Ji (Kiyomizudera)
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Ennin carved a Senju Kannon with 1000 Arms.
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/09/seisuiji-kannon.html
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Gabi Greve said...

He founded the temple
ganman Fudo 願満不動, ? mangan Fudo 満願不動尊 "fullfilled vow"
江戸崎不動 Edosaki Fudo
医王山 Iozen 不動院 Fudo-In 東光寺 Toko-ji
in Ibaraki.
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/04/ganman-fudo-ibaraki.html
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Gabi Greve said...

He carved a Jizo Bosatsu at
秋嶠山 Shukyozan 地蔵院 Jizo-In 妙法寺 Myoho-Ji
茨城県桜川市本郷13 / Ibaraki, Sakuragawa, Hongo
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/05/konjiki-fudo-ibaraki.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Statue of Kankiten, Kangiten 歓喜天 Shoten, Ganesh .
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Yushima Kannon 湯島観音 , Tokyo
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/09/yushima-kannon-shinjoin.html
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Gabi Greve said...

founded the temple Zenryu Fudo 善立不動尊
圓瀧山 光明院 Komyo-In 興禅寺 Kozen-Ji
and carved a statue of Jizo Bosatsu
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/05/senryu-fudo-takada.html
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Gabi Greve said...

founded Anyoji 安養寺 Anyo-Ji, An’yō-ji - Kagurazaka
医光山 Ikozan 長寿院 Choju-In
Tokyo 新宿区神楽坂6-2 / Shinjuku, Kagurazaka
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/09/anyoji-kannon-kagurazaka.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Iwate, 奥州市 Oshu city 江刺南町 Esashiku Minami town
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In the Ninja village of Oshu there lived タカソトハノタケトシ Taka no Toha no Taketoshi.
He brought his son to 光明寺 Komyo-Ji to study and soon the son became a skilled teacher.
Later the son moved on to 比叡山 Hieizan.
The High Priest from Hieizan had a dream telling him a special person would come from the East, so he welcomed the son.
The son became known as 慈覚大師 Jigaku Daishi, said to be an incarnation of 観音菩薩 Kannon Bosatsu.
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Gabi Greve said...

Jigaku Daishi Ennin 慈覚大師仁円 Legends
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2020/12/jigaku-daishi-ennin-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

founder of the temple 山ノ寺 Yama no Tera, Mountain Temple, in Miyagi.
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Yama no Tera Dounji 山ノ寺洞雲寺 / ヤマノテラ ドウウンジ
Mountain Temple Doun-Ji
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2018/04/tachidaruma-statue-gifu-tounji.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Kannon Bosatsu
at the temple Joounji 浄運寺 Joun-Ji, Place
増光山Zokozan 摂護院 Setsugo-In 浄運寺 Jounji
Tokyo 新宿区愛住町14-3 / Shinjuku ward, Aizumi
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2021/10/jounji-kannon-aizumi.html
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Gabi Greve said...

founded the temple
光珠山 Terumizan / 青柳山 Aoyagizan 普光院 Fuko-In 東泉寺 Tosenji
Saitama
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2022/07/tosenji-fudo-segasaki.html
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