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Shōryaku-ji

Coordinates: 34°38′41″N 135°52′07″E / 34.644661°N 135.868482°E / 34.644661; 135.868482
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Shōryaku-ji
正暦寺しょうれきじ
Religion
AffiliationBodaisen Shingon
DeityYakushi Nyorai
Location
Location157 Bodaisen-chō, Nara, Nara Prefecture
CountryJapan
Architecture
FounderKenshun
Completed992
Website
http://shoryakuji.jp/index.html

Shōryaku-ji (正暦寺しょうれきじ) is a Shingon temple in the southeast of Nara, Japan. Founded in 992, it is the head temple of the Bodaisen Shingon sect.[1]

History

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Shōryaku-ji is said to have been founded by Kenshun (兼けん俊しゅん), son of Fujiwara no Kaneie, in 992, at the behest of Emperor Ichijō. The temple burned to the ground in the 1180 assault on Nara by Taira no Shigehira. Revived the following century, Shōryaku-ji fell into decline in the Edo period and most of the buildings of the garan have been lost.[1]

Buildings

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The Hondō and Shōrō are from the Taishō period (1916 and 1925 respectively). The sukiya-style reception hall from Enpō 9 (1681) is an Important Cultural Property.[2][3][4]

Treasures

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The honzon, a gilt bronze Yakushi Nyorai of the Asuka period, is a hibutsu. It has been designated an Important Cultural Property, alongside a Southern Song celadon bowl excavated from the precinct, and scroll thirty from a Nara-period Ekottara Agama, known as Zenkō-shuin-kyō (善光ぜんこう朱印しゅいん経けい) or sutras with the red seal of Zenkō, now kept at Nara National Museum.[4][5][6] A Kamakura-period Nirvana painting and a pair of scrolls with an Ise Mandala of the Nanboku-chō period are Prefectural Cultural Properties, as are two standing wooden Heian-period bodhisattvas traditionally identified as having come originally from Daigorin-ji (大だい御ご輪わ寺てら), and a Kamakura-period sculpture of Kujaku Myōō.[6][7] A Kamakura-period scroll of Yakushi and the Twelve Heavenly Generals is a Municipal Cultural Property and is kept at Nara National Museum.[8]

Flora

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The temple's Japanese Chinquapin forest is a Prefectural Natural Monument.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b 正暦寺しょうれきじご案内あんない [Guide to Shōryakuji] (in Japanese). Shōryakuji. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  2. ^ 正暦寺しょうれきじ本堂ほんどう・鐘楼しゅろう [Shōryakuji Hondō - Shōrō] (in Japanese). Shōryakuji. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  3. ^ 福寿ふくじゅ院いん客殿きゃくでん [Fukuju-in Kyakuden] (in Japanese). Shōryakuji. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  4. ^ a b 国くに指定してい文化財ぶんかざい一覧いちらん [List of National Cultural Properties] (in Japanese). Nara Prefecture. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  5. ^ 金銅かなどう薬師如来やくしにょらい倚像 [Seated Wooden Statue of Yakushi Nyorai] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  6. ^ a b 正暦寺しょうれきじの文化財ぶんかざい [Cultural Properties of Shoryakuji] (in Japanese). Shōryakuji. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  7. ^ a b 奈良なら県けん指定してい文化財ぶんかざい一覧いちらん [List of Prefectural Cultural Properties of Nara Prefecture] (PDF) (in Japanese). Nara Prefecture. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  8. ^ 奈良なら市し指定してい文化財ぶんかざい一覧いちらん [List of Municipal Cultural Properties] (in Japanese). Nara City. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
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