Anrakuji is an independent Jodo-affiliated temple whose origins trace to the "Shishigatani Hermitage" established as a nembutsu training hall in the early Kamakura period by Jurenbo and Anrakubo, disciples of Honen. It is the tragic setting of the Kenei Persecution: when two of the retired Emperor Gotoba's court ladies, Matsumushi and Suzumushi, took the tonsure here, Gotoba's fury led to the exec…
The origins of Anrakuji date to 1207, when Jurenbo and Anrakubo, disciples of the monk Honen, established a nembutsu training hall known as the Shishigatani Hermitage in the hills of Shishigatani. That same year, the retired Emperor Gotoba's court ladies Matsumushi and Suzumushi took the tonsure at …
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "阿弥陀如来"
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