Sennyū-ji
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History
Sennyū-ji was founded in the early Heian period.Template:Sfn According to one tradition, it was founded as Script error: No such module "Nihongo". in 855 at the former mountain villa of Fujiwara no Otsugu.[2] According to another tradition, this temple was a reconstruction of an earlier temple, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., which had been founded by Kōbō-Daishi in the Tenchō era (824–834).[1] The major buildings in Sennyū-ji were reconstructed and enlarged in the early 13th century by the monk Tsukinowa Shunjō.[2] The temple was enlarged by Priest Shunjo in 1218, and the large temple buildings were built in the contemporary Chinese style of the Song dynasty.[3] Priest Shunjo traveled to China during the Song dynasty to study Buddhism.[3]
Tsukinowa no misasagi
Emperor Go-Horikawa and Emperor Shijō were the first to be enshrined in an Imperial mausoleum at Sennyū-ji. It was called Tsukinowa no misasagi.Template:Sfn[4]
Go-Momozono is also enshrined in Tsukinowa no misasagi along with his immediate Imperial predecessors since Emperor Go-Mizunoo -- Meishō, Go-Kōmyō, Go-Sai, Reigen, Higashiyama, Nakamikado, Sakuramachi, Momozono and Go-Sakuramachi.Template:Sfn
Nochi no Tsukinowa no Higashiyama no misasagi
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Art
Sennyū-ji's large nehan-zu painting depicts Buddha on his death bed. This massive image (8 meters x 16 meters) is the largest in Japan. The image at nearby Tōfuku-ji is the second largest of its kind in Japan, measuring 7 meters x 14 meters. Both images are only rarely displayed, most recently in 2003 for three days only.[5]
See also
- Tsuki no wa no misasagi
- Tōfuku-ji
- Unryū-in
- List of Buddhist temples in Kyoto
- Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kyoto
- List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)
- Japanese Imperial Tombs
Notes
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- ↑ "Kansai: Who -- What: Giant Buddhas shown for three days only," Japan Times Online. March 9, 2003.
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External links
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