Jingo-ji
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The temple was first established in the year 824, as a merger of two private temples founded earlier by Wake no Kiyomaro. They were the Jingan-ji (神願寺) in Kiyomaro's home province and the Takaosan-ji (高雄山寺).
Treasures
Jingo-ji holds sixteen National Treasures of Japan.[1] They include the honzon and other statues. Another treasure is a list written by Kūkai in 812 called the Script error: No such module "Nihongo". and displays some of Kukai's talent for calligraphy. This list contains people and deities in 812 who underwent the abhisheka at Takaosan-ji presided by Kūkai.
The Buddhist Sutra "Bimashōkyō", translated by Guṇabhadra, was handed down at the temple. It is "one of the a volume from the Issaikyō (a Buddhist corpus), commonly known as Jingo-ji kyō, the corpus originally consisted of more than 5,400 volumes in total, but only 2,317 still remain as the rest were scattered outside the temple."[2]
Buildings
Buildings at Jingo-ji have been destroyed by fire and war. Of the original buildings, only the Daishi-dō survived the Ōnin War;[1] even the present Daishi-dō is of uncertain date. Itakura Katsushige, a daimyō and former Kyoto shoshidai in the Tokugawa shogunate, commissioned a major reconstruction in 1623. Another reconstruction took place in the 1930s with a contribution from Gendō Yamaguchi. Present structures include the following:
- Rōmon (1623)
- Kondō (金堂, 1934), housing the central image of Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing.
- Bishamon-dō (1623)
- Godai-dō (五大堂, 1623), housing statues of Fudō Myōō and other wrathful deities.
- Bell tower (1623)
- Daishi-dō (大師堂, date unrecorded)
- Tahōtō (1934)
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Buses from the center of the city arrive at a stop alongside the road. A long set of stairs leads down to the river, and a short bridge leads across it. A similar set of stairs leads up to the gate of the temple.
See also
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- List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)
- List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)
- List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)
- List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts-others)
References
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