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Copyright: keitaro nakamoura (nekoyama)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2004-01-02 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Camera: Fuji Finepix S5000 |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-07-10 7:17 |
| Viewed: 717 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Mount Koya (Koya-San:高野山) is the sacred mountain of Tantric Buddhism in Japan. Same as Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, Japanese Tantric Buddhism (called Shingon-Shu:真言宗) is a branch of Buddhism that values esoteric practices.
Tantric Buddhism was introduced to Japan by Kukai (774-835), a Japanese monk who was trained in Tang Dynasty China. In 817, Kukai had founded a temple on the top of Mount Koya, and since that time, this mountain became the sacred mountain of Tantric Buddhism in Japan.
There are 117 temples on Mount Koya, and the headquarters of these temples is Kongobu-Ji Temple.
This is a picture of one of many buildings of Kongobu-Ji Temple. |
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