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Tendai temple with Ennin founding tradition housing 33 Kannon images for a miniature pilgrimage experience
12 min by bus from JR Yokaichiba Station
Ikio, Sosa, Chiba
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Chokokuji is a Tendai temple in Ikio, Sosa City, continuing to guard the Tendai dharma lamp as a branch of Enryakuji on Mount Hiei. There is a tradition that it was founded during Jikaku Daishi Ennin's circuit of eastern provinces, said to have over a thousand years of history. The principal Amida Nyorai is enshrined as an object of faith based on the Tendai Pure Land teachings. Located on a plate…
Chokokuji is an ancient Tendai temple traditionally said to have been founded in 850 CE by Jikaku Daishi Ennin during his circuit of the eastern provinces. Ennin, the third head priest of Enryakuji on Mount Hiei, is credited with spreading the Tendai dharma across the Kanto region after returning fr…
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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