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Shiraiwasan Chōkoku-ji (Shiraiwa Kannon)

群馬県

Fifteenth temple of the Bandō 33 Kannon — Shiraiwa Kannon traditionally founded by En no Ozunu, with a Tenshō-era main hall rebuilt by Takeda Katsuyori

Founded

711

Type

Temple

Visited

Want to go

Access

From JR Takasaki Station, take Gunma Bus to Shiroiwa-Kannon, then 5 min on foot

448 Shiroiwamachi, Takasaki, Gunma

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Info

Temple

Founded 711

1315 years

Enshrined Deity

十一面観世音菩薩

Founder

En no Ozunu (founder, by tradition); imperial decree of Emperor Shōmu (711)

Buddhist Sect

Kinpusan Shugen Honshū

Overview

Chōkoku-ji is a Kinpusan Shugen Honshū temple in Shiroiwa, Takasaki, Gunma, the fifteenth station of the Bandō 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, popularly known as Shiraiwa Kannon. Tradition relates that in 654 the ascetic En no Ozunu (En no Gyōja) reached this site and enshrined an Eleven-Headed Kannon atop a great white rock, the origin of the temple's name. In 711, by imperial decree of Emperor Shōmu, the …

Origins

Tradition relates that in 654 the ascetic En no Ozunu reached this site and enshrined an Eleven-Headed Kannon atop a great white rock, the origin of the temple's name. In 711, by imperial decree of Emperor Shōmu, the temple compound is said to have been built. In the late Heian period Minamoto no Yo…

Pilgrimage Circuit

A pilgrimage of 33 Kannon temples — an ancient circuit winding through the historic temples of the entire Kantō region

Bandō 33 Kannon Pilgrimage

Principal Buddha

Eleven-Headed Kannon

十

About Jūichimen Kannon

Wooden standing Eleven-Headed Kannon (Hokkeiji, Nara, National Treasure, Heian period)

Jūichimen Kannon (Eleven-Headed Kannon): bears eleven faces atop the principal head to perceive and rescue suffering beings in all directions. Long venerated as a deity of healing and warding off misfortune.

Kannon Forms · Seven Kannon

聖

Shō

十

Jūichimen

千

Senju

如

Nyoirin

馬

Batō

准