A Tendai nunnery built in 1894 by the 117th abbess of Zenkoji Daihongan in Shinshu, serving as Zenkoji's Kyoto branch temple and enshrining an alter-image of the Zenkoji Nyorai. The principal Ikkosanzon Amida Nyorai is in the same form as at Zenkoji in Nagano, allowing worshippers in the Kansai region to earn the merit of a Zenkoji pilgrimage. The grounds offer the same Okaicho (dark-corridor pilg…
Tokujomyoin is a Tendai nunnery founded in 1894 by the 117th abbess of Zenkoji Daihongan in Shinshu (present-day Nagano Prefecture). Zenkoji Daihongan is the main monastic hall of Zenkoji, a temple with a history said to extend back to the Nara period, and Tokujomyoin was established as its Kyoto br…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "一光三尊阿弥陀如来"
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