JINGOJI TEMPLE

三尾きっての古刹。創建は８２４年といわれる。当時、唐から帰国したばかりの空海と最澄を招いて密教儀式を行い、さらに空海が１４年間住持したことから、高野山金剛峰寺とともに真言密教の寺院として知られるようになった。現在ある諸堂は、桃山様式の大師堂（重文）を除いて江戸後期の再建。薬師如来立像・五大虚空蔵菩薩像、日本三名鐘に数えられる梵鐘はいずれも国宝。紅葉の名所としても知られる。

Jingo-ji (神護寺^?) is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It stands on Mount Takao to the northwest of the center of the city. The temple adheres to Shingon Buddhism. Its honzon is a statue of Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing or "Medicine Buddha".The temple was established in the year 824, as a merger of two private temples founded earlier by Wake no Kiyomaro. They were the Jingan-ji (神願寺) in Kiyomaro's home province and the Takaosan-ji (高雄山寺).Jingo-ji holds sixteen National Treasures of Japan.^[1] They include the honzon and other statues. Another treasure is a list written by Kukai in 812 called the "Name List of Abhiseka [Initiates]" (灌頂歴名, kanjōrekimyō^?) and displays some of Kukai's talent for calligraphy. This list contains people and deities in 812 who underwent the Abhiseka ritual at Takaosan-ji, presided by Kukai.Buildings at Jingo-ji have been destroyed by fire and war. Of the original buildings, only the Daishi-dō survived the Ōnin War;^[1] even the present Daishi-dō is of uncertain date. Itakura Katsushige, a daimyo and former Kyoto shoshidai in the Tokugawa shogunate, commissioned a major reconstruction in 1623. Another reconstruction took place in the 1930s with a contribution from Gendō Yamaguchi. Present structures include the following:

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