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Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

A basic walk in Kyoto is from the Kawaramachi Station area along shops to Yasaka Shrine, then Maruyama Park (first photo). But instead of turning right toward the traditional shops along the slope and reaching the world heritage temple Kiyomizudera, I sometimes turn left and go along the slope to Chion-In (other three photos), the national head temple of a Pure Land Buddhist sect. Pure Land Buddhism has the most adherents in Japan, and this is a very large-scale temple for parishioners and members nationwide, rather than a sort of outdoor museum or monument like Kiyomizudera and most other major tourist attractions.

Everywhere in Kyoto and other prefectures is gorgeous during the fleeting cherry blossom viewing season, so any walking route with a lot of cultivated nature is rewarding to experience now.

Iconic weeping sakura in Maruyama Park in Kyoto
The huge gate to Chion-In
Pagoda area of Chion-In during the brief cherry blossom viewing season
The huge bell of Chion-In that is rung on O-Bon for returning spirits in August, and it rings in the New Year on national TV.
#Japan#Kyoto#travel
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EngagedPureLand

BREAKING: DOGE has cancelled promised funding for the upcoming NEH Summer Institute "Buddhist Perspectives on the Natural World in an Age of Global Climate Change." This two-week intensive program was bringing 25 educators to Berkeley in order to learn from a dozen top scholars and practitioners of eco-Buddhism, including David Loy, Dekila Chungyalpa, and Natalie Avalos.
#Buddhism #engagedbuddhism #DOGE #Environment #ecology #sustainability #buddhist #NEH
mangalamresearch.org/summer-in

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

Nichizō soon won over and converted Yanagi-ya Nakaoki (柳屋仲興), the widow of the store's owner. She gifted him the store and its numerous buildings to create a Nichiren temple.

At first Nichizō bestowed on it the name 'Yanagi-dera' (柳寺), after the original shop.

#Japan#京都#Kyoto
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Camellia Tea Ceremony

The temple's history began with the arrival of Nichizō (日像) in 1294.
Charged with converting Emperor Fushimi (伏見天皇) to Nichiren Buddhism (日蓮系諸宗) by Nichiren on his deathbed, Nichizō found lodgings at the Yanagi-ya (柳屋) saké store at Nishinotōin Gojō.

Cherry blossoms at Myoren-ji.
Kerria roses at Myoren-ji.
Peach blossoms at Myoren-ji.
Gorgeous multilayered cherry blossoms.
#Kyoto#Japan#京都
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