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The 20th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage of Eight…
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徳島県勝浦郡勝浦町生名鷲ケ尾14
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The 20th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage of Eighty-Eight Sacred Places, an ancient temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect said to have been founded in 798 (Enryaku 17) by Kobo Daishi Kukai, who carved a Jizo Bodhisattva from a sacred tree being guarded by two white cranes. Located deep in the mountains at an elevation of 470 meters, the temple was named Kakurin-ji, meaning Crane Forest Temple, from t…
According to temple tradition, in 798 (the 17th year of the Enryaku era), the Buddhist monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) discovered two white cranes guarding a sacred old cedar tree deep in the mountains during his travels through Shikoku. He is said to have carved a statue of Jizō Bosatsu from the sacred wo…
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