Rokkaku-dō Temple
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right|thumb|from the picture album "Kannon Reigen ki" thumb|right|Prince Shōtoku at the Rokkaku-dō. Scene from the Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (聖徳太子絵伝), Muromachi period
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『六角堂』 紫雲山 頂法寺｜聖徳太子創建、いけばな発祥の地
京都の街中に佇むお寺、六角堂のホームページです。紫雲山頂法寺『六角堂』は、聖徳太子創建の寺であり、いけばな池坊発祥の地でもあります。西国三十三所と洛陽三十三所それぞれの巡礼地にもなっており、六角堂には日々たくさんの参拝者が訪れます。
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right|thumb|from the picture album "Kannon Reigen ki" thumb|right|Prince Shōtoku at the Rokkaku-dō. Scene from the Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (聖徳太子絵伝), Muromachi period
is a Buddhist temple located in the Rokkaku-dori Higashinotoin Nishinido-mae-chō neighborhood of Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism and its honzon is a hibutsu statue of Nyōirin Kannon. The statue is never displayed to the public and is not a designated cultural property, but by tradition it is a three-inch gilt-bronze image of Nyōirin Kannon that was donated by Taira no Tokuko in 1178. The temple's full name is Shiun-san Chōhō-ji (紫雲山 頂法寺); however, the temple is far more commonly known by the name of its hexagonal main hall, the . The temple is the 18th stop on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage route.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rokkaku-dō Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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