Ninotaki Temple 14 Sasaguri Pilgrimage

 

Ninotaki Temple is yet another of the temples on the Sasaguri Pilgrimage that has a waterfall for ascetic training and numerous Fudo Myoo statues.

Ninotakiji is a Koyasan Shingon temple.

The honzon, like its counterpart of the original Shikoku Pilgrimage temple 14, is Maitreya, the Future Buddha.

Sometimes known as Miroku in Japan, he is sometimes said to be a Buddha, sometimes a Bodhisattva.

It is a fairly large temple complex by the standards of most of those on the Sasaguri Pilgrimage.

The main hall was built in 1998.

It is unusual in being built completely out of Teak brought from Myanmar.

Other halls within the grounds are a Daishi Hall, a Kannon Hall, a Jiko Hall, a Benten Hall, and Inari Shrine, and a Sorei Hall.

The Jiko Hall enshrines Jiko, the nun who founded the temple.

However, for me, the most interesting was the multiple Fudo's around the two waterfalls...

The previous post in this series on day 2 of my walk along the Sasaguri Pilgrimage was on temple 20, Nakanokawachi Jizo-do.

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Shikoku 88 Temple 14 Jorakuji

Jorakuji, the 14th temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage is unusual in several respects. The first being that whereas many temples have carefully manicured gardens and large flat areas of raked gravel, Jorakuji is built on an uneven rocky outcropping with nary a flat spot anywhere.

The second unusual feature is the main deity which is Miroku Bosatsu, known as the "Future Buddha" and who is believed will become a buddha in the future to save all people. It is the only temple on the pilgrimage with this as the main deity.

Meaning "temple of everlasting peace" Jorakuji belongs to the Shingon sect and legend has it was founded by Kukai.

It is believed that diabetes can be cured by praying here and drinking tea made from the leaves of the Yew tree that grows here.

There is also a legend of a woman who carried her crippled husband 5 times around the pilgrimage and on the sixth circuit he was healed here so it is also popular for disabled people.