Kongo-in in Serizawa, Namegata, is a Shingon Buzan temple and ancient site associated with Kobo Daishi Kukai's missionary travels through the eastern provinces. Dainichi Nyorai, the principal Buddha of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, is enshrined and venerated, and the temple has functioned as a training hall for goma fire rituals. A Kobo Daishi Miei-do hall stands in the grounds, and on the twenty-fir…
Kongo-in is traditionally said to have been founded by Kobo Daishi Kukai during his missionary travels through the eastern provinces, reportedly around the 830s during the early Heian period. Established as a center of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, the temple took root in the farming lands of ancient H…
Averting disaster, directional protection, warding off epidemics. Central at Fudo, Kannon, and Gion-related sites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "大日如来"
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