About Gokuraku-ji (Kitakami)

Gokuraki-ji (極楽寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the former Esahi District of what is now the city of Kitakami, in Iwate Prefecture in the far northern Tōhoku region of Japan, located at the base of the 244 metres (801 ft) Mount Kunimi. The temple belongs to the Shingon sect and its main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai.

Danjōgaran in Mount Kōya, Wakayama prefecture, Japan.

The major Shingon temples in Japan

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Monuments, Temples

Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and .

Kiyotaki-ji
Banna-ji
Daifuku-ji
Enmyō-in
Gokuraku-ji (Kitakami)
Kanpuku-ji (Yamakura - Katori)
Kongō-ji
Mangan-ji (Setagaya)
Nago-dera
Negoro-ji
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