Sanuki Kokubun-ji

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The Sanuki Kokubun-ji ( Japanese 讃 岐 国 分 寺 , the provincial temple of Sanuki ), Kokubun-ji for short ( Japanese 国 分 寺 ) in today's city of Takamatsu ( Kagawa Prefecture ) is a temple of the Shingon Buddhist movement. In the traditional count, it is the 80th temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage route . Epithet (GO) of the temple are Hakugyūsan ( 白牛山 ) and Senjuin ( 千手院 ).

history

In 741, Emperor Shōmu decreed that a “Konkōmyō Shitennō Goku no Tera” ( 金光明 四 天王 護 国 之 寺 ) and a “Hokke Metsuzai no tera” ( 法 華 滅罪 之 寺 ) should be established in all provinces . The Sanuki Kokubun-ji was completed according to the order during the Tempyō-Hōji era (757-765). The facility, consisting of the buildings Middle Gate ( 中 門 , Chūmon), main hall ( 金堂 , Kondō), teaching hall ( 講堂 , Kōdō) and monks' quarters ( 僧坊 , Sōbō), lay on a line, with between the gate and the main hall there was a pagoda on the east side. The 32 base stones of the main hall and traces of the pagoda point to the important complex. The traces of the pagoda also point to this time of origin. The spacious complex was largely destroyed in the unrest of the 16th century.

In 1952 the temple area with 220 m in north-south direction and 330 m in east-west direction was designated as a "particularly important national history trail " ( 国 220 史跡Kuni tokubestsu shiseki ). From 1983 excavations were carried out, with the monks' quarters and the trenches that once surrounded the temple were exposed.

In 2006, the city ​​of Kokubunji named after the temple was incorporated into the prefecture capital Takamatsu.

The attachment

Far to the south in front of the actual temple complex is the temple gate (山門, Sammon; 1). After about 140 m you are in front of today's main hall (本 堂, Hondo; 2). It is designated as an important cultural asset (marked with ◎ in the following) and was built on the foundations of the teaching hall. It is 5 × 5  ken in size and tiled. The construction can be dated to the middle Kamakura period .

Today's monk area closes on the west. It is completely surrounded by a wall, but accessible from the temple area described through a gate (3). There is the hall in which the temple founder is venerated, the Daishidō (大師 堂), in a structural design of the present.

Treasures

In the main hall there is an approximately 5 m high thousand-armed cannon (◎) made of wood. It dates from the end of the 11th century. A bronze bell (銅鐘, Dosho; ◎) also comes from this period.

photos

  • Temple gate

  • Way to the main hall

  • Bell tower

  • Bronze bell

  • Bishamondō

  • Entrance to the monastery area

  • Daishidō

  • Sōbō (excavation; A)

literature

  • Kagawa-ken no rekishisampo henshu iinkai (Ed.): Kokubun-ji . In: Kagawa-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2013. ISBN 978-4-634-24637-9 . Page.
  • Oguri, Doei: Kukai. Shikoku hachijuhachi kosho no arukikata. Chukei no Bunko, 2011. ISBN 978-4-8061-4067-2 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 34 ° 18 ′ 11.3 "  N , 133 ° 56 ′ 39"  E