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This Sôtô Zen temple is a popular pilgrimage destination on Lake Usori (a volcanic caldera) in Aomori Prefecture. It is located on the site of a hall founded in 862 by Ennin from Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei, who enshrined a Jizô Bodhisattva statue that he carved himself. Later, the temple flourished as a locus for Shugendô (syncretistic Buddhism, Shinto or folk religion), famous for ghosts, mediums, and hermits.
- Uryû (2003: 214)
The Tendai temple was destroyed in 1457 during the Kagisaki Disturbance. In 1522, it was rebuilt as a Sôtô Zen temple by a monk Jukaku with financial support from the Nambu clan. It is now part of Entsûji in Mutsu City.
- “Bodaiji (Mutsu-shi)” http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐山菩提寺
-“Osoreyama sai no kawara” http://sainokawara.fubuki.info/osorezan.html
Input by: Lizbeth H. Piel, Aug 23, 2010
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 31 Jan 2014
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Osorezan [monastery?], JP.
Lat 41.327030 Long 141.090290
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2010.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Osorezan 恐山 [monastery?]
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- Japan: Aomori Prefecture
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- Karadasan - Uryû (2003: 214)
- Osoreyama - http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐山
- Osore Bodaiji - http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐山
- Bodai-ji - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Osore
- Mount Osore - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Osore
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx., Lat 41.327030 Long 141.090290 - based on the visual identification of Osorezan/Bodajji temple in maps, maps.google.com - tmciolek, 25 Aug 2010.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- Mutsu-shi, Tanagu-chô
- Mutsu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JA/03/Mutsu.html
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Aomori Prefecture was historically part of Mutsu Province, also known as Ôshû - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsu_Province
- Tanabe - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JA/03/Mutsu.html
- Tanabu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JA/03/Mutsu.html
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 41.2894 Long 141.2169 - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JA/03/Mutsu.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- Mahayana
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- Tendai till 1522; Zen (Sôtô) sect after 1522
11. Date-early
- 862 CE - Uryû (2003: 14)]
MBM chrono-tag: 0833-66c - tmciolek 31 Jan 2014
0833-66c 0867-99c 0900-32c 0933-66c 0967-99c 1000-32c 1033-66c 1067-99c 1100-32c 1133-66c 1167-99c 1200=> dated-ex
12. Date-intermediate
- 1522 - http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐山菩提寺
MBM chrono-tag: 1200=> - tmciolek 31 Jan 2014
13. Date-late
- [missing data]
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- A connection with Enryakuji (Hieizan) through Ennin and the Tendai sect
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- Documents, architecture
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
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