Nison-in Temple

A Tendai sect temple located in Nagagamicho, Saga Nison-in Temple, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City. Its correct name is Ogurayama Nison Kyoin Keta-ji. It is named Nison-in Temple because it enshrines the two principal deities, Shaka and Amida. It is the 17th temple of the 25 sacred places of Enko Daishi (Honen Genku). It is said to have been founded by Ennin during the Jowa era (834-848) by the retired Emperor Saga. It is a training center for the study of the four sects of Tendai, Shingon, Ritsu, and Jodo. It later fell into decline, but Honen once lived there, and his disciple Tankū (1176-1253) worked to restore it, later receiving Honen's cremated remains and becoming the main training centre for Nembutsu. It was burned during the Onin War (1467-1477), but was rebuilt by Sanjonishi Sanetaka and his son. After the Meiji Restoration, it changed from Jodo to Tendai Buddhism. On the mountainside are the tombs of Honen's mausoleum, as well as the graves of successive generations of the Nijō, Takatsukasa and Sanjonishi families, Suminokura Ryoi and his son, Ito Jinsai, and Kyorai. The main image is a wooden statue of Shaka and Amitabha Nyorai (made in the Kamakura period), the colored silk painting of the Jitsuryu statue of Shoyo-in, the Kojo statue of Shomyō-in, the Five Pure Land Patriarchs statue, the Ten Kings statue, the Shaka Triad statue, the portrait of Honen Shonin (a portrait of the foot-pulling), the Seven Articles of Law of Honen Shonin, and the Homon Myōgi, all of which are important cultural properties of Japan. There are also three stone former tombs of the three emperors.

[Tamura Kosuke]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

京都市右京区嵯峨(さが)二尊院門前長神町にある天台宗の寺。正しくは小倉山(おぐらやま)二尊教院華台寺(けたいじ)。本尊に釈迦(しゃか)、阿弥陀(あみだ)の二尊を祀(まつ)るところから二尊院の名がある。円光大師（法然(ほうねん)源空）二十五か所霊場第17番札所。承和(じょうわ)年間（834～848）嵯峨上皇が円仁(えんにん)に創建させたという。天台・真言・律・浄土の四宗兼学の道場。その後、衰微したが、法然が一時住し、弟子湛空(たんくう)（1176―1253）が再興に努め、のち荼毘(だび)に付された法然の遺骨を迎え、念仏の根本道場となった。応仁(おうにん)の乱（1467～77）の兵火にかかったが、三条西実隆(さんじょうにしさねたか)父子により再建された。維新後、浄土宗から天台宗となった。山腹には法然廟所(びょうしょ)、二条・鷹司(たかつかさ)・三条西家歴代、角倉了以(すみのくらりょうい)父子、伊藤仁斎、去来(きょらい)などの墓がある。本尊の木造釈迦・阿弥陀如来(にょらい)像（鎌倉時代作）、絹本着色逍遙(しょうよう)院実隆像、同称名院公条像、同浄土五祖像、同十王像、同釈迦三尊像、同法然上人(しょうにん)像（足曳(あしびき)の御影）、法然上人七ヶ条制法、『法門妙義』は国重要文化財。また石造旧三帝陵三基などがある。

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