Tōchō-ji Temple
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is a Shingon temple in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary sangō prefix is . It was founded by Kūkai in 806, making it the oldest Shingon temple on the island of Kyushu.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Buddhist temple
- Religion
- Shingon Buddhism
- Country
- Japan
- Founded by
- Kūkai
- Dedicated to
- Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara
- Official website
- www.tochoji.net
- Image
- Touchouji02.jpg
- Connects with
- Gion Station
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- name in kana
- とうちやうじ
- inception
- 0806-00-00
- Commons category
- Tochoji
- revised Hepburn romanization
- Tōchō-ji
- street address
- 2-4, Gokushomachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City 8120037
- pseudonym
- 南岳山
- native label
- 東長寺
- phone number
- +81-92-291-4459
- fax number
- +81-92-291-4504
- postal code
- 812-0037
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is a Shingon temple in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary sangō prefix is . It was founded by Kūkai in 806, making it the oldest Shingon temple on the island of Kyushu.
==History== According to tradition, Kūkai or Kobo-daishi set up this temple when he came back from China and prayed for the eastward dissemination of Tantric Buddhism. It was originally situated by the seaside, but after burning down at the end of the 16th century, it was relocated to the present site by Kuroda Tadayuki, the second lord of Chikuzen province. The second, the third, and the eighth lord of the Kuroda clan are buried here.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tōchō-ji Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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