An'yō-in (Kamakura)
Gionzan An’yō-in Chōraku-ji | |
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Jōdo | |
Location | |
Location | Ōmachi 3-1-22, 248-0007 Kamakura |
Country | Japan |
Architecture | |
Founder | Hōjō Masako |
Completed | 1225 |
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Gionzan An’yō-in Chōraku-ji (祇園山安養院長楽寺) is a
Kannon, Goddess of Mercy. An’yō-in is Number three of the 33 temples of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit.[2]
History
This temple has a complex history and is the result of the fusion of three separate temples called Chōraku-ji, Zendō-ji and Tashiro-ji.[2] It was first opened in 1225 as Chōraku-ji in Hase Sasamegayatsu by Hōjō Masako for her defunct husband Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura shogunate.[1][2] At the time it was a Ritsu sect temple. After being burned to the ground by Nitta Yoshisada's soldiery in 1333 at the fall of the Kamakura shogunate,[2] it was fused with Zendō-ji, moved to this spot and renamed, but it burned again in 1680.[1][2] It was then once more rebuilt and a Senju Kannon (Thousand-armed Goddess of Mercy) was transferred to it from Tashiro-ji in Hikigayatsu.[1]