Eifuku-Ji Shikoku 57

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Nr. 57 - 府頭山 Futoizan　無量寿院 Muryoju-In 　栄福寺 Eifuku-Ji
愛媛県今治市玉川町八幡甲200 / Imabara

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The Temple of Good Luck
The temple was founded by Kōbō Daishi on the orders of Emperor Saga. The complex started off as a Shrine, but when Kōbō Daishi prayed here for safety at sea and stopped a storm with his prayers, Amida Nyorai appeared to him. Kōbō Daishi then converted it to a temple, carved the honzon of Amida, and enshrined it here.

In 861 Emperor Saga frequently sent Gyōkō (a priest from Daianji in Nara) to Usa in Kyūshū to receive an oracle from the God Hachiman. On one trip, his ship was wrecked in the area of this temple. Since the area around this temple resembles the area around Usa in Kyūshū, he simply climbed up to this temple and received the oracle from Hachiman here. Gyōkō believed that Hachiman was a manifestation of Amida Nyorai. The temple is now often called Katsuoka Hachiman by the locals.

The temple has been destroyed by fire several times and was deserted for almost a century, but has always remained as a favorite location for people offering prayers for safety at sea, as is Konpira Shrine in Kagawa Prefecture.

- source : www.shikokuhenrotrail.com


- Chant of the temple
この世には弓矢を守る八幡なり　
来世は人を救う弥陀仏
Kono yo ni wa yumiya o mamoru yahata nari raise wa hito o sukufumida butsu





- Homepage of the temple
- source : 88shikokuhenro.jp


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