Daishō-in 大聖院
Founded according to tradition in 806 by Kūkai, with the Kannon hall whose eye-opening ceremony was performed in 2006 by the 14th Dalai Lama.
The head Shingon temple on Miyajima, at the foot of Mount Misen; it also looks after the buildings on the summit, including the Hall of the Eternal Flame. According to tradition the temple was founded in 806 by Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), on his return from China, during a meditation retreat on Mount Misen; the first written source, however, dates only from 1177, under the original name of Suishō-ji (水精寺), linked to the Itsukushima shrine: historians believe that at that time it stood on the mainland, not yet on the island. In the same year, 1177, it became a prayer chapel by decree of Emperor Toba, and in 1885 Emperor Meiji stayed there while visiting the Itsukushima shrine. A fire in 1887 destroyed most of the buildings, which were then rebuilt; in 1906 a donation from Itō Hirobumi paid for improvements to the pilgrimage path. In the Kannon-dō hall, an eleven-faced Kannon was replaced, after a restoration, by the statue of Miroku Bosatsu: the eye-opening ceremony was performed by the 14th Dalai Lama on 3 November 2006, for the 1,200th anniversary of the temple's founding.
Hiroshima
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