Eifuku-ji (Imabari)
The Eifuku-ji ( Japanese 栄 福寺 ) with the Go Futōzan (府 頭 山) and Muryōjuin (無量 寿 院) is a temple of Shingon Buddhism in the city of Imabari (Ehime Prefecture). In the traditional count, it is the 57th temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage route .
history
Since the Seto Inland Sea is often very stormy at this point, Priest Kūkai built a temple on Mount Futō to protect the boatmen. As the main cult figure , a statue of Amida Buddha was laboriously brought up the mountain.
The Eifuku-ji is an example of the common worship of Buddhist and Shinto deities. In the first year of Jōgan (859), priest Gyōkyō (行 教), who worked at the Yamato-Daianji (大 和 大安 寺), was asked by the Usa Hachima (宇佐 八 幡) in Ōita to open a branch temple in Kyoto on the Otokoyama (男 山) erect. On the way there he got caught in a storm and had to land here. He noticed that the Futō was very similar to the Otokoyama and built a shrine on the temple grounds to worship Hachiman Myōjin (八 幡 明 明).
After the Meiji Restoration , the temple and shrine were separated, and the temple was moved to the base of the mountain. The hall in which the temple founder is venerated, the Daishidō (大師 堂), was moved from the mountain to the new location.
The attachment
The facility at the foot of the Futō rises slightly from the gateless entrance. First you pass the bell tower on the right side (鐘楼, Shōrō; 1), then after a bend to the left and after a few steps on the right the Daishidō (2) and you are now in front of the main hall (本 堂, Hondō; 3).
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literature
- Ehime-ken kotogakko chireki komin bukai rekishi bukai (Ed.): Eifuku-ji . In: Ehime-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2008. ISBN 978-4-634-24638-6 . Page 100.
- Oguri, Doei: Kukai. Shikoku hachijuhachi kosho no arukikata. Chukei no Bunko, 2011. ISBN 978-4-8061-4067-2 .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 1 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 132 ° 58 ′ 42.5 ″ E