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和顔（わげん）地蔵
Kamakura, Komyo-Ji


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Tenshōzan Renge-in Kōmyō-ji (天照山蓮華院光明寺)
is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo sect in Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan,
the only major one in the city to be close to the sea.
Kōmyō-ji is number one among the Kantō Jūhachi Danrin (関東十八檀林),
a group of 18 Jōdo temples established during the Edo period by Tokugawa Ieyasu,
and dedicated to both the training of priests and scholarly research.
It is also the sect's head temple for the Kantō region.
In spite of the fact it is a Jōdo sect temple, Kōmyō-ji has several of the typical features of a Zen temple,
for example a sanmon (main gate), a pond and a karesansui (rock garden).
Kōmyō-ji has always enjoyed the patronage of Japan's powerful
and is the only Buddhist temple in Kamakura to have had the privilege of being a daimyō's funeral temple.
It was chosen for that role by the Naitō clan, feudal lords from today's Miyazaki Prefecture
whose tombs are part of the temple's compound.
The temple, besides the usual Buddhist cemetery, maintains a special crypt
for the ashes of house pets and other animals, and twice a year holds in the Main Hall ceremonies in their memory.
The crypt was created and is maintained by a group of veterinarian volunteers.
The temple holds occasional music concerts in its main hall, concerts that are announced in its Web site.
For 3500 yen, visitors who make a reservation can try at Kōmyō-ji the vegetarian food the resident priests themselves eat.
Entrance is free, with the exception of the sanmon gate , which can be visited only telephoning the temple,
explaining the motives for the planned visit, making a reservation and paying a small fee.
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. Komyo-Ji temples in Japan .
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和顔（わげん）地蔵で復興プロジェクト Wagen Jizo Project
和顔地蔵の大きな１体は「祈」の大切さを伝えるために、東日本大震災と復興祈願で全国をまわり、
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .


When 檀通和尚 Priest Dantsu of temple Komyo-Ji in Kamakura died,
there was a strange smell during his funeral
when his body was burnd and his bones turned to shari 舎利 sacred bones.
His nenju 念珠 rosary with about 50 pearls released a special shine.

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. A priest named Yuusuu 祐崇 Yusu .
reciting 十夜念仏 the the Nenbutsu prayer for 10 nights
at 光明寺 the Temple Komyo-Ji in Kamakura.

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