Honmon Hokke-shu head temple founded in 1294, with Hasegawa Tohaku-school screen paintings, a Momoyama karesansui Garden of the Sixteen Arhats, and the celebrated camellia 'Myorenji-beni'
Myorenji is the head temple of the Honmon Hokke-shu school, founded in 1294 by Priest Nichizo at Gojo Nishinotoin and relocated to its present site after the Tenbun Hokke Uprising. The "Juroku Rakan no Niwa" (Garden of the Sixteen Arhats) in the rear shoin is a Momoyama dry landscape garden with sixteen stones arranged to represent the ascetic practice of the arhats. The Myorenji camellia is a rar…
Myorenji Temple is said to have been founded in 1294 by the monk Nichizo, a direct disciple of Nichiren, at Gojo Nishinotoin in Kyoto. Nichizo is renowned as a pioneering propagator of the Nichiren school in the capital. During the Muromachi period, the temple flourished as the head temple of the Ho…
Averting disaster, directional protection, warding off epidemics. Central at Fudo, Kannon, and Gion-related sites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "十界大曼荼羅"
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