One of the Three Mountains of East Lake, founded by Prince Shotoku for Baekje immigrant monks — known as a "Tendai detached temple," one of the oldest in Omi
Hyakusai-ji, in Hyakusaiji-cho, Higashiomi City, Shiga, is a Tendai-school temple that, together with Kongorin-ji and Saimyo-ji, constitutes the "Three Mountains of East Lake" (Koto Sanzan) — among the oldest temples in Omi Province. The principal image is the Eleven-Headed Kannon Bodhisattva. Site 123 of the Shinbutsu Reijo Pilgrimage. Tradition holds that the temple was founded in 606 by Prince …
Tradition holds that Hyakusai-ji was founded in 606 by Prince Shotoku as a base for monks who had come from the Korean Kingdom of Baekje, modeled on Baekje's Ryuun-ji. As one of the foremost official temples of Japan's Buddhist transmission era, it flourished through the Nara period; in the Heian pe…
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Derived from the enshrined deity "十一面観世音菩薩"
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