A Walk Around Kyushu
Day 75, Th March 27th, 2014
Chikuzenmaebaru to Imajuku, Part 1
It's simply get-go to larn lite equally I larn off the prepare at Maebaru as well as start to await for the initiative off pilgrimage temple of the twenty-four hours which is nearby. It's going to locomote a long twenty-four hours with a lot of Earth to encompass as well as lots of places to visit, but I am helped yesteryear the fact that I am basing myself inwards Hakata for the adjacent few days thus I don't request to demeanour a total pack with me.
I uncovering the temple, Ryuzenji, unwrap 107 of the pilgrimage, on a pocket-size rising surrounded yesteryear a housing estate. Two novel Nio statues made of rock flank the driveway. They are a criterion design, as well as similar many other types of statues nowadays, are just the same all over the country.
The national homogeneity continues to locomote created out of historical diversity. Ryuzenji is a small unimposing wooden temple with many cherry trees inwards total bloom. There are likewise quite a few Fudo Myo-o statues. The large unwrap of Fudo statues encountered on this pilgrimage has been i of the highlights for me.
Now I cause got to caput inland as well as I cause got been sort of non looking forwards to it equally the adjacent temple is a mount temple as well as I dread the climb. I caput along the southern border of a broad valley filled with rice paddies. On my agency dorsum I volition zig-zag through the middle of the valley equally at that spot are a bunch of shrines as well as a museum to visit. Once I make the temple, Sennyo-ji, unwrap 28, I am pleasantly surprised that it is genuinely non that high upwardly the mountain. I am likewise surprised that at that spot is an entrance fee. As far equally I tin give the sack think this is the initiative off temple on this pilgrimage that I cause got had to pay to larn into. It turns out to locomote worth it.
There is enough of statuary some the grounds, including several of Fudo Myo-o. Behind the cluster of chief buildings is a dainty garden with pond as well as the Sun comes out as well as illuminates it nicely for me. From this initiative off laid upwardly of buildings a covered staircase heads upwardly the colina to the chief hall. On the hillside with the trees are statues of the Buddhas disciples, rakan. I am guessing that at that spot is the total complement of 500 here, every unmarried i different.
As I operate into the darkened chief hall a priest is giving a ceremony for a woman. After they complete he takes her dorsum as well as shows her the temples chief statue. When they supply he motions me to sit down downwards as well as and thus he proceeds into a chant. For whatever reason, the ceremony given me is alone nearly one-half the length of the i he had previously given. The statue is genuinely quite impressive, standing almost v meters tall as well as nearly 700 years old.
It is a Senjyu Kannon, a Thousand Armed Kannon, but whereas most senjyu kannon statues genuinely alone cause got 48 arms, this i genuinely does cause got a total i thousand. From the chief hall the covered stairway climbs nevertheless i time again to some other building. This is dedicated to the founder of the temple who, surprisingly, was an Indian monk.
The interior is real brilliant as well as grand as well as the walls are covered inwards aureate leafage upon which are painted many pictures of deities as well as boddhisatvas. Buddhism has a large influence from Hinduism, as well as it is quite obvious from these ikon that seem to a greater extent than Hindu than usual. All real colorful as well as unusual. It's fourth dimension to larn on thus I descend the stairs as well as exit the temple as well as caput dorsum downwards hill. Once I make the apartment valley bottom below the clouds cause got by as well as large dispersed.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 74
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 75 II
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Day 75, Th March 27th, 2014
Chikuzenmaebaru to Imajuku, Part 1
It's simply get-go to larn lite equally I larn off the prepare at Maebaru as well as start to await for the initiative off pilgrimage temple of the twenty-four hours which is nearby. It's going to locomote a long twenty-four hours with a lot of Earth to encompass as well as lots of places to visit, but I am helped yesteryear the fact that I am basing myself inwards Hakata for the adjacent few days thus I don't request to demeanour a total pack with me.
I uncovering the temple, Ryuzenji, unwrap 107 of the pilgrimage, on a pocket-size rising surrounded yesteryear a housing estate. Two novel Nio statues made of rock flank the driveway. They are a criterion design, as well as similar many other types of statues nowadays, are just the same all over the country.
The national homogeneity continues to locomote created out of historical diversity. Ryuzenji is a small unimposing wooden temple with many cherry trees inwards total bloom. There are likewise quite a few Fudo Myo-o statues. The large unwrap of Fudo statues encountered on this pilgrimage has been i of the highlights for me.
Now I cause got to caput inland as well as I cause got been sort of non looking forwards to it equally the adjacent temple is a mount temple as well as I dread the climb. I caput along the southern border of a broad valley filled with rice paddies. On my agency dorsum I volition zig-zag through the middle of the valley equally at that spot are a bunch of shrines as well as a museum to visit. Once I make the temple, Sennyo-ji, unwrap 28, I am pleasantly surprised that it is genuinely non that high upwardly the mountain. I am likewise surprised that at that spot is an entrance fee. As far equally I tin give the sack think this is the initiative off temple on this pilgrimage that I cause got had to pay to larn into. It turns out to locomote worth it.
There is enough of statuary some the grounds, including several of Fudo Myo-o. Behind the cluster of chief buildings is a dainty garden with pond as well as the Sun comes out as well as illuminates it nicely for me. From this initiative off laid upwardly of buildings a covered staircase heads upwardly the colina to the chief hall. On the hillside with the trees are statues of the Buddhas disciples, rakan. I am guessing that at that spot is the total complement of 500 here, every unmarried i different.
As I operate into the darkened chief hall a priest is giving a ceremony for a woman. After they complete he takes her dorsum as well as shows her the temples chief statue. When they supply he motions me to sit down downwards as well as and thus he proceeds into a chant. For whatever reason, the ceremony given me is alone nearly one-half the length of the i he had previously given. The statue is genuinely quite impressive, standing almost v meters tall as well as nearly 700 years old.
It is a Senjyu Kannon, a Thousand Armed Kannon, but whereas most senjyu kannon statues genuinely alone cause got 48 arms, this i genuinely does cause got a total i thousand. From the chief hall the covered stairway climbs nevertheless i time again to some other building. This is dedicated to the founder of the temple who, surprisingly, was an Indian monk.
The interior is real brilliant as well as grand as well as the walls are covered inwards aureate leafage upon which are painted many pictures of deities as well as boddhisatvas. Buddhism has a large influence from Hinduism, as well as it is quite obvious from these ikon that seem to a greater extent than Hindu than usual. All real colorful as well as unusual. It's fourth dimension to larn on thus I descend the stairs as well as exit the temple as well as caput dorsum downwards hill. Once I make the apartment valley bottom below the clouds cause got by as well as large dispersed.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 74
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 75 II
© JapanVisitor.com Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/