A Jodo-sect temple founded in 1609 by the monk Dansei, a branch temple of Chionin. Dansei is said to have entered a stone coffin and become a "sokushinbutsu" (living Buddha mummy), whose remains are enshrined in a cave behind the main hall. At the temple gate stands an enormous maple tree over 800 years old, designated a natural monument. Located at the innermost reaches of Ohara at an elevation o…

Amidaji Temple in Ohara was founded in 1609 by the Jodo-sect monk Dansei Shonin, a wandering nenbutsu priest who chose this mountain site deep in Ohara as a place of ascetic practice and Buddhist propagation. According to tradition, Dansei Shonin later entered a stone coffin and achieved sokushinbut…