Nittai-ji, Kakuōzan (覚王山日泰寺) 覚王山日泰寺
No Buddhist school owns it: nineteen take turns as abbot, 3 years each.
Kakuōzan Nittai-ji stands on a hill in Chikusa Ward, at the top of a slope lined with shops. The name joins the characters for Japan and Thailand (at the time of its founding, Siam). In 1898 at Piprahwa, in British India, bones attributed to the Buddha were found; they passed to the Siamese royal house, which gave part of them to Japan together with a gilded statue, now the temple's principal image. The buildings you see are post-war; the relics are kept in a separate stupa, that is, the mound that in Buddhism holds the remains, uphill from the grounds. It is the only Japanese temple that does not belong to a single school.
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Chikusa, Kakuōzan
