Dainembutsu-ji

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Main hall ( 本 堂 , hondō ) of the temple

The Dainembutsu-ji ( Japanese 大 念 仏 寺 ) is a Buddhist temple in Hirano-ku in the Japanese city ​​of Osaka and the main temple of the Yūzū Nembutsu-shū with about 350 branch temples .

The temple originally belonged to the Shingon-shū under the name Shuraku-ji ( 修 楽 寺 ) and was visited by Ryōnin ( 良 忍 ; 1072–1132), the founder of the Yūzū Nembutsu-shū, after his stay in Shitennō-ji (1127) . Under Ryōnin's successor Gongen ( 権 現 ) the temple was converted to the Yūzū Nembutsu-shū.

The main temple of the Yūzū Nembutsu-shū he was under Hōmyō ( 法 明 ; 1279-1349), who restored it.

literature

  • Daigan Lee Matsunaga and Alicia Orloff Matsunaga: Foundation of Japanese Buddhism; Vol. II; The mass movement (Kamakura & Muromachi periods) . Buddhist Books International, Los Angeles and Tokyo 1976. ISBN 0-914910-27-2 .

Web links

Commons : Dainembutsu-ji  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matsunaga 1976, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Matsunaga 1976, p. 17.

Coordinates: 34 ° 37 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 135 ° 33 ′ 1.8 ″  E