Sainenji in Takano, Moriya, is a Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect temple said to have origins in a nembutsu practice hall opened by Saint Shinran during his stay in Hitachi Province. With Amida Nyorai as its principal image, it has functioned as a place of nembutsu faith based on the teaching of reliance on another's power. Located in Takano, a place Shinran used as a base for eastern missionary work, i…
Sainenji is said to trace its origins to around 1230 (Kangi 2), when Saint Shinran established a nembutsu practice hall in Takano during his extended stay in Hitachi Province. Shinran is believed to have resided in the eastern provinces for approximately twenty years from around 1214, traveling thro…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "阿弥陀如来"
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