More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  One interesting feature of Ichibata Yakushi Temple is the 84,000 Buddhas project.  Buddhism says that we have 84,000 mental impurities tha...

  I head inland from the coast of the Shimane Peninsula and reach Ichibata Yakushi Temple, number 26 on the pilgrimage. From the car park an...

I paid another visit to Ichibata Yakushi, the mountaintop temple to the buddha of healing Yakushi Nyorai, located between Lake Shinji and th...

Yakushi Nyorai is the Japanese name for the Buddha of Medicine & Healing. These statues, about 25cms tall, are at the Ichibata Yakushi T...