Enpuku-Ji

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Temple Enpuku-Ji
円福寺（えんぷくじ）
empukuji enpukuji
Kyoto, Yahata Town 京都府八幡市
臨済宗妙心寺派円福寺


The first of the eight great Daruma Temples!




A temple of the Rinzai Sect. Built in the Tenmei period 天明年間（1781～88）as a training place for the Temple Myoshin-Ji 妙心寺. It has been re-constructed during the Edo period and is even now a place where many Zen monks train for their later life.

It hostes a famous statue of Daruma Daishi from the Kamakura period, one of the Three Great Daruma Statues. The statue is said to have been carved on behalf of Shotoku Taishi, or even by him. This statue used to be in posession of the family Tanaka at the shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangu and brought here in 1807.

This secret statue is shown every year on April 19 and 20. Members of a special temple group Mannin Ko 万人講 (Manninko) get a special meal in red pots (akazen 赤膳).

The statue of Daruma is also shown to the Group members on October 20.

The temple holds a famous Daruma Market on this day too.


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Yamada Mumon Roshi :

All things are embraced
Within the universal mind
Told by the cool wind
This morning.

He was deeply awakened, and with this his body was cured. He went to a sesshin at Empukuji near Kyoto and was able to completely realize his True Nature.
source:　Yamada Mumon Roshi

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Daruma Temples in Japan


Daruma Ichi - Daruma Markets in Japan

Daruma Museum

Dinner tray (zen 膳), box tray (hako zen) ...

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