A Tendai temple founded around 834 by Empress Tachibana no Kachiko (Danrin-kogo), consort of Emperor Saga, marking Japan's first training hall (danrin) exclusively for nuns. The Empress was renowned as a peerless beauty, and the legend that she had her own corpse exposed after death to demonstrate impermanence became the subject of 'Kusou-zu' paintings. The temple is now defunct; only a small hall…
Around 834 (the first year of the Jōwa era), Empress Tachibana no Kachiko—known posthumously as Danrin-kōgō—founded this Tendai nunnery in the Sagano district of the capital. It is regarded as Japan's first training hall (danrin) established exclusively for nuns, and the empress is credited with int…
Averting disaster, directional protection, warding off epidemics. Central at Fudo, Kannon, and Gion-related sites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "釈迦如来"
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