Sugimotodera Kannon Kamakura

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Sugimotodera 杉本寺　Sugimoto-Dera - Kamakura
大蔵山　Taizosan 観音院 Kannon-In 杉本寺 Sugimotodera

神奈川県鎌倉市二階堂903 / 903 Nikaidō, Kamakura, Kanagawa

The main statue is Eleven-Headed Kannon


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Sugimoto-dera (大蔵山観音院杉本寺, Taizō-zan Kannon-in Sugimoto-dera)
is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the oldest temples in Kamakura and, together with Hōkai-ji, the only one of the Tendai denomination.
Two of the three statues of goddess Kannon it enshrines are Important Cultural Properties.
Sugimotodera is nicknamed Geba Kannon ("Dismount Kannon"), because horsemen never failed to dismount from their steeds when they passed by.
(According to a different version of the legend, non-believers always fell from their horse when passing in front of the temple.)
The temple is a branch temple (末寺, matsuji) of Hōkai-ji.
According to the temple's own records,
Sugimoto-dera was founded in 734 by the minister of the Imperial Court Fujiwara no Fusasaki (681 – 737) and
行基菩薩 priest Gyōki on orders by Emperor Shōmu.
The temple's legend holds that Empress Komyo (701–760) in the Nara Period (710–794) instructed Fujiwara and Gyoki (668–749) to build the temple enshrining a statue of Eleven-Headed Kannon as the main object of worship. It is therefore considered to be the oldest of Kamakura's temples, predating the Kakamura shogunate by half a millennium.
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. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) .
. Komyo Kogo 光明皇后 Empress Komyo .

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shuin 朱印 stamp


source : shukuken.com/sugimotodera...
Sugimotodera no kifuda mamori 杉本寺の木札守 amulet

- Homepage of the temple
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Also on the following pilgrimages :

. 鎌倉三十三観音霊場 - 33 Kannon Temples in Kamakura - Nr. 1 .

鎌倉二十四地蔵尊霊場 - 24 Jizo Temples in Kamakura - Nr.4 and 6

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This temple is Nr. 01 of the
. 坂東三十三観音 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples in Bando (Kanto)

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Juichimen Kannon 十一面観世音菩薩 Kannon with 11 Heads

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. Join the Kannon Bosatsu Gallery on Facebook .

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. 坂東三十三観音 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples in Bando (Kanto)

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