Site 22 of the Shin-Saigoku 33 Pilgrimage — Tenjo-ji on Mt. Maya in Kobe, the world's only sanctuary enshrining Maya, mother of the Buddha
Tenjo-ji, on the slopes of Mt. Maya in Maya-san-cho, Nada Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo, is a Koyasan Shingon temple and Site 22 of the Shin-Saigoku 33 Pilgrimage. The principal image is the Eleven-Headed Kannon Bodhisattva. The mountain name "Maya-san" derives from Maya, the mother of the Buddha, and the temple is renowned as the only sanctuary in the world enshrining the Buddha's mother as a principal …
Tradition holds that Tenjo-ji was founded in 646 by imperial vow of Emperor Kotoku, opened by the Indian sage Hodo Sennin — a legendary holy man said to have founded many Tendai-related temples across Harima. Among these, Tenjo-ji formed its own distinctive devotional sphere by enshrining Maya, the …
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Derived from the enshrined deity "十一面観世音菩薩・摩耶夫人尊"
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