Renjoji Yakushi Uchiyama

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Renjooji 蓮城寺 Renjo-Ji, Uchiyama
有智山 Yuchizan 蓮城寺 Renjoji

大分県豊後大野市三重町内山527 / Oita, Bungo Ono city, Miemachi, Uchiyama

The Yakushi statue is Sentai Yakushi 千体薬師 One Thousand Yakushi Statues.

The Yakushi Hall　薬師堂.

Yakushi Sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi and two side statues

Another statue is 内山観音 Uchiyama Kannon.
千手観音 Senju Kannon Statue, 96 cm high.

The date of the founding is not clear.
This is the only temple with 1000 statues of Yakushi Nyorai in Japan.
They were maybe made in the Muromachi period (1336 - 1573).

In the compound is kosodate Jizo 子育て地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu to bring up children

In the compound is also a statue of Hannya Hime 般若姫 Princess Hannya.

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Also on the following pilgrimages :
Renjoji is temple 27 on the Shingon Kyushu 108 temple Pilgrimage
The official version of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan has the king of Paekche sending a statue to the Yamato court in the mid 6th Century, but that ignores the fact that northern Kyushu and the Japan Sea coast, much closer to the peninsula, had extensive contacts and interactions with Korea, and it seems highly unlikely that Buddhism did not appear in these areas before then.
- reference : ojisanjake.com -

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- - - - - Reference of the temple
- source : 9navi.jp/utiyama ...
- source : oyakushi.com ...
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This temple is Nr. 17 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing
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