Also known as Ōminesan temple, Ōminesan-ji
is an important temple of the Shugendō religion in the village of Tenkawa, Yoshino district, Nara prefecture, Japan. It is located at the Sanjōgatake peak of Mount Ōmine. Along with Kinpusen-ji, it is considered the most important temple in Shugendō. From the early Heian period to the present, women have been prohibited from entering the sacred mountain. The precincts were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2002.
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is an important temple of the Shugendō religion in the village of Tenkawa, Yoshino district, Nara prefecture, Japan. It is located at the Sanjōgatake peak of Mount Ōmine. Along with Kinpusen-ji, it is considered the most important temple in Shugendō. From the early Heian period to the present, women have been prohibited from entering the sacred mountain. The precincts were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2002.
==Overview== According to tradition, the temple was established in at the end of the 7th century by En no Gyōja, the founder of Shugendō, a form of mountain asceticism drawing from Buddhist and Shinto beliefs. The main hall is located near the summit of Sanjōgatake (1719.2 meters), located in the middle of the Ōmine Mountain Range, and enshrines Zaō Gongen. While the main hall (Zaō-dō) of Kinpusen-ji on Mount Yoshino is called "Sange no Zaō-dō," the main hall of Ōminesan-ji is called "Yamagami no Zaō-dō." The two Zaō-dō temples on the mountain and at the bottom of the mountain are more than 20 kilometers apart, and are now separate temples, but originally they were part of a single Shugendō temple called "Kinpusen-ji." It was only in modern times that they were separated.
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