Shikoku Pilgrimage Gods September 19, 2011 No Responses Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage Tagged with: Buddhism, Konzōji, Nagaoji, Negoroji, Sanuki Kokubunji, Shidoji, Tennōji, Yakuriji, Yashimaji As you most likely already know, when you do the Shikoku Pilgrimage, or simply when you visit its temples
Kōbō-Daishi’s Birthday August 6, 2011 6 Responses Featured, Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Traditional Culture, Zentsūji Tagged with: Buddhism, Henro, Kōbō-Daishi, Shingon While I mention Kōbō-Daishi quite often, I never talked in detail about him. And as this post will mostly be
Back to Zentsūji July 30, 2011 2 Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Zentsūji Tagged with: Buddhism, Kōbō-Daishi, Pagoda, Shingon Last June, on the 14th to be exact, I went to Zentsūji for the third time (but visited it only
Zentsūji July 27, 2011 No Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Traditional Culture, Zentsūji Tagged with: Buddhism, Kōbō-Daishi, Shingon I already briefly mentioned Zentsūji before, but now is time to tell you a bit more about it. Zentsūji
Ryōzenji (霊山寺) July 9, 2011 2 Responses Naruto, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Tokushima Tagged with: Buddhism, Henro After watching the Naruto Whirlpools, we drove to the town of Naruto to visit Ryōzenji (霊山寺), the first of
Zentsūji Temple June 24, 2011 No Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Zentsūji We stopped in Zentsūji for just a few minutes on our way from Zenigata Sunae to Konpirasan, but it
The View Today June 7, 2011 4 Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage Where was it? Any guesses?
Negoroji (根香寺) November 15, 2010 No Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Takamatsu Tagged with: Buddhism, Henro, Kobekannon, Momiji, Negoroji, Senju Kannon, Shingon, Ushi Oni Unfortunately, I don’t have that much to tell you about Negoroji apart from the fact that it’s the 82th
Sanuki Kokubunji November 12, 2010 2 Responses Kagawa, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Takamatsu Tagged with: Buddhism, Henro, Jizō, Kōbō-Daishi, Sanuki Kokubunji, Shingon As you may already know, Shikoku is famous among other things for its Pilgrimage of 88 Buddhist Temples. I’m