The 22nd temple on the Shikoku Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage, a Koyasan Shingon Buddhist temple founded in 815 when Kobo Daishi Kukai discovered a five-colored sacred spring (goshikisui) in the mountains, carved a Yakushi Nyorai, and enshrined it as the principal image. The temple's name, Byodo-ji (Temple of Equality), is said to derive from the Daishi's teaching that all people equally possess B…

According to tradition, in 815 (the 6th year of the Kōnin era), the Buddhist monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) discovered a sacred five-colored spring while traveling through the area, carved an image of Yakushi Nyorai (the Healing Buddha), and established Byōdō-ji. The temple's name, meaning 'equality,' is …