Kanzeon-ji

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Kanzeon Temple (teaching hall, today main hall)
Bell tower with a bell from the Nara period (an important cultural asset of Japan )
Inventory of the Kanzeon Temple from 905
Foundation stone for the main pillar of the five-story pagoda
Avalokiteśvara (Japanese Kannon ) from 1066. Height 3.21 m

The Kanzeon-ji ( Japanese. 観 世 音 寺 ) is a Buddhist temple from the second half of the 7th century in Dazaifu , Japan, which today is only partially preserved .

The temple with the mountain Title Kiyomizu-san ( 清水山 ) takes its name from the main deity Shōkannon ( 聖観音 ; also Kanzeon Bosatsu 観世音菩薩 or Kanjizai Bosatsu 観自在菩薩 ; Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara ), the bodhisattva of universal compassion (Sanskrit karuna ). With its ordination platform ( Kaidan'in ), which was later outsourced , it was one of the three most important temples in Japan. After the Heian period he lost this dominant position, but a number of valuable sculptures have survived the turmoil of the times.

history

According to the Heian chronicle Shoku Nihongi , the temple was founded by the Tennō Tenji (626-672) in honor of his powerful mother Saimei ( Kōgyoku ). In 709 the construction work was still not finished. In 746, after 80 years, a huge facility was built. The temple bell, one of the oldest bells in the country, is considered a counterpart to the bell of the Myōjin temple ( Myōshin-ji ) in Kyoto. It is protected as an important cultural asset of Japan . In the year 761 the monk Jianzhen (Japanese Ganjin) , who had moved from China, built a hall with an ordination platform in the southern part of the temple area.

Repeated natural disasters hit the plant hard. The teaching hall ( kōdō ) and the five-storey pagoda burned down in 1064. In 1102 a typhoon destroyed the south portal and the golden hall ( kondō ). The latter was rebuilt, but fell victim to a fire in 1143. In 1630 the new Golden Hall collapsed in a storm. Thanks to the initiative of the feudal lords of Fukuoka, the Kuroda family , the Golden Hall was built again in 1631 and the teaching hall again in 1688, so that a minimal functionality as a temple was guaranteed.

Since the Heian period, the Kanzeon Temple was a branch temple of the Tōdai Temple ( Tōdai-ji ) in Nara . In the Meiji period he was added to the Tendai School . After restoration work on the sculptures (1913–1917), they were transferred to a concrete building erected for this purpose in 1959, which has since served as a temple treasure museum:

  • Amitābha (Japanese Amida Nyorai, 阿 弥陀 如 来 坐像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Amitābha (Japanese Amida Nyorai, 阿 弥陀 如 来 坐像 ) wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Avalokiteśvara (Japanese Kannon , 観 音 菩薩 立 像 ) wooden sculpture from the Heian period (1066)
  • Avalokiteśvara (Japanese Kannon , 観 音 菩薩 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Avalokiteśvara (Japanese Kannon , 観 音 菩薩 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Sri-mahadevi (Japanese Kichijōten, 吉祥 天 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • The four heavenly kings Caturmahārāja (Japanese Shitennō, 四天 王立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Eleven-faced Kannon Ekādaśamukha (Japanese Jūichimen Kannon, 十 一面 観 音 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Eleven-faced Kannon Ekādaśamukha (Japanese Jūichimen Kannon, 十 一面 観 音 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period , 1069
  • Eleven-faced Kannon Ekādaśamukha (Japanese Jūichimen Kannon, 十 一面 観 音 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Kamakura period , 1242
  • The god of luck Daikoku -ten ( 大 黒 天 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Kshitigarbha (Japanese Jizō bosatsu, 地 蔵 菩薩 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Kshitigarbha (Japanese Jizō bosatsu, 地 蔵 菩薩 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Horse- headed Kannon Hayagriva (Japanese Batō Kannon, 馬頭 観 音 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the late Heian period (height 5.03 m)
  • Vaiśravaṇa (Japanese Bishamonten , 毘 沙門 天 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Heian period
  • Amoghapāśa Lokeśvara (Japanese Fukūkenjaku Kannon 不 空 羂 索 観 音 立 像 ), wooden sculpture from the Kamakura period , 1222
  • Three Bugaku masks ( 舞 楽 面 ) from the Kamakura period
  • Stone lion dogs (Japanese komainu , 石 造 狛 犬 ) used as gatekeepers from the Kamakura period
  • Bronze mirror ( 銅製 天 蓋 光 心 ) from the Nara period

See also

literature

  • Kyūshū Rekishishiryōkan (ed.): Kanzeon-ji . Dazaifu: Kanzeon-ji, 2006 ( 九州 歴 史 資料 館 編 『観 ​​世 音 寺』 観 観 世 音 寺 発 行 )

Web links

Commons : Kanzeonji (Dazaifu)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Database of Registered National Cultural Properties . Agency for Cultural Affairs . Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kanzeon-ji (2006) p. 18
  3. ^ Database of Registered National Cultural Properties . Agency for Cultural Affairs . Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kanzeon-ji (2006) p. 40
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Coordinates: 33 ° 30 ′ 53.2 ″  N , 130 ° 31 ′ 15 ″  E