True Gokurakuji Temple

Japanese: 真正極楽寺 - しんしょうごくらくじ

A Tendai Buddhist temple in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, also known as Shinnyodo. According to the Shinnyodo Engi Emaki scroll, a document of the temple's history, when Ennin returned from his trip to China, he carved a statue of Amida Buddha that appeared on a boat and enshrined it in the Jodo Hall of Enryaku-ji Temple. In 992, Kaisan received a message in a dream and moved it to a temple built in the villa of Higashisanjo-in, located east of Kaguraoka. In 993, it became a temple at the request of Emperor Ichijo, and the temple's buildings were improved as a large temple. After it was burned down during the Onin War, it was forced to move from place to place, but in 1484, it was rebuilt at its current location thanks to a donation from Ashikaga Yoshimasa. It was later moved again, but returned to its current location in 1693, when it reverted to the Tendai sect. The three volumes of the Shinnyodo Engi Emaki, a colored paper scroll created in 1524, have words written by Emperor Go-Kashiwabara and Prince Sonchin and illustrations by Sobe no Kami Suke Hisakuni. The principal image, Amida Nyorai, is an Important Cultural Property. The temple also houses six volumes of the Lotus Sutra, a supplication scripture by the Buddhist sculptor Unkei, which has a colophon dated 1183 and is a National Treasure. Another temple treasure, the Jien Sojo Message, is an Important Cultural Property. A grand Nembutsu memorial service called "Ojuya" is held from November 5th to 15th.

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Japanese:

京都市左京区にある天台宗の寺院で，別称真如堂。寺伝の『真如堂縁起絵巻』によれば，円仁が入唐して帰朝した際に，船上に現れた阿弥陀如来を彫刻して延暦寺の常行堂に安置した。それを正暦3 (992) 年に，戒算が夢告により，神楽岡東にあった東三条院の離宮に建てた一宇に移した。同5年には一条天皇の勅願寺となり，大寺院として堂塔伽藍が整備されたという。応仁の乱で焼失したのち，移転を余儀なくされ各地を転々としたが，文明 16 (1484) 年足利義政の寄進により現在地に再建された。その後再び移転をするが，元禄6 (1693) 年現在地に戻り天台宗に復した。大永4 (1524) 年に制作された紙本著色『真如堂縁起絵巻』3巻は，詞を後柏原天皇，尊鎮法親王が書き，絵は掃部頭助久国の筆による。本尊阿弥陀如来は重要文化財。また国宝として寿永2 (1183) 年の奥書をもつ，仏師運慶の願経である『法華経』6巻を所蔵する。同じく寺宝の『慈円僧正消息』は重要文化財。 11月5日から 15日まで「お十夜」の盛大な念仏供養が行われる。

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