Henro 36

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Temple 36 Shooryuuji 青龍寺
Shoryu-Ji
The Temple of the Azure Dragon

独鈷山 Tokkozan 　伊舎那院 Ishana-In 青龍寺 Shoryu-Ji

Kochi, Tosa town
高知県土佐市宇佐町竜601 / 高知県土佐市宇佐町竜163
601 Usachōryū, Tosa-shi

- Chant of the temple
わずかなる泉にすめる青龍は 　
仏法守護の誓いとぞきく







Seiryuujii, Shooryuuji 青竜寺
temples named Seiryu-ji or Shoryu-Ji
. more - temples named 青竜寺 .


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- source : ojisanjake.blogspot.jp


. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .


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Namikiri Fudo Talisman



納経所横の石段を上ると、仁王門が見え、仁王門をくぐると左手に滝がある。
そのそばには、平成4年建立の赤い三重塔が、緑の木立の中に建っている。
新しいだけに美しい塔だ。仁王門から本堂までの石段が長い。１７０段
本堂には海上安全を祈願する職や絵馬がたくさん奉納されている。土佐藩
主山内氏は青龍寺に帰依し、藩費によって諸堂の修造が行われたと伝えら
れている。明治の頃までは土佐七大寺の中に数えられていた大寺で、末寺
四か寺、脇坊六坊を有していたという。石段を上りきったところには本堂と大師
堂が並んでいる。向かい側には三十三観音の石像がある。どの石像にも、赤
や黄の、前かけのような布がかけてある。そのため石像にもあたたかみが感
じられる。



Look at many more photos here:
http://f46.aaa.livedoor.jp/~taxi/junrei/36/36z.htm





Namikiri Fudo, Wave-calming Fudo

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Aki Meguri Shikoku Logbook:
the Temple Guy

The temple is located at the end of a swampy valley which I guess was once an inlet of Usa Bay (more on that name in a moment). Several writers have mentioned that the bridge seen here was only built in 1975; before that pilgrims had to "cross the river" by boat. I would guess that in fact--when the inlet was still there--they crossed the entire bay by boat. It was a long way around the bay by bus; it would have been a beeline by boat.

The founding legend here replicates the one for the founding of Koyasan. When he was leaving China after his studies there, the Daishi threw his vajra--a sort of holy dumbbell he's often seen holding in his right hand--across to Japan. It landed here, behind the hondo. So he founded the temples here. (At Koyasan, it was his staff, not his vajra. Jeez, he must have come home empty-handed!)

A "perennial" word about the vajra. We're told that on the pilgrimage, we should hold our beads in our left hand when we pray, without being told why. A cursory inspection will show that statues of the Daishi always show him with a circle of beads in his left hand. (A circle--remember that.) In his right, he usually has his vajra if sitting, and his staff if standing.

Freud calling. The circle is feminine, the staff or vajra masculine. The feminine symbol is in the left (yin, receptive, passive) hand, the masculine in the right (yang, creative, active) hand.
Mystery solved.

This temple has a waterfall used in a rite called takigyo--praying under a waterfall. I have had the privilege of seeing this--under a much larger fall--at one of the temples on the Bando circuit. It is truly powerful. This waterfall, though much smaller, would still give you quite a rush.
source :　the temple guy.com


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