Choshoji Temple

Japanese: 超昇寺 - ちょうしょうじ

A temple located in Nara City. It is also written as Chosho-ji. Prince Takaoka (who became a monk and took the Buddhist name Shinnyo) of Emperor Heizei founded the temple in 835 (Jowa 2) on the site of the former Yamamomo Palace. At the end of the 10th century, Seikai of Kofuku-ji Temple lived here, initiating the seven-day Great Nembutsu (Chosho-ji Great Nembutsu) and painting a mandala of the Pure Land. This is called the Seikai Mandala and is counted as one of the three Pure Land mandalas in Japan. The temple fell into decline due to wars in the Middle Ages, and by the early Edo period only one building remained. Ryuko tried to restore it, but it was eventually abandoned.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

奈良市にあった寺。超勝寺とも書く。平城天皇の皇子高丘（たかおか）親王(出家して法名を真如（しんによ）という)が，835年(承和2)楊梅（やまもも）宮の跡地をたまわって創建した。10世紀の末，興福寺の清海がこの寺に住み，7日間の大念仏(超昇寺大念仏)を始め，極楽浄土の曼荼羅をえがいた。これを〈清海曼荼羅〉といい，日本の浄土三曼荼羅の一つに数えられている。中世の戦乱により衰退し，江戸初期にはわずかに堂1宇を残すのみとなり，隆光が復興につとめたが，ついに廃絶した。

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