An old Tendai sect temple in Numata, established as a center of Tendai teachings in the upper Tone River basin. Said to have been founded by a monk from Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei in the Heian period, transmitting the Tendai teachings of shikan meditation. The principal image, Amida Nyorai, has gathered the faith of people living in the mountain region as the Buddha of compassion. Numata's river terrac…
Eisenji is a Tendai sect temple said to have been founded around 900 CE by a monk from Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei during the mid-Heian period. Established as a center of Tendai Buddhist teachings in the upper Tone River basin, the temple transmitted the practice of shikan meditation to this mounta…
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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