is a

Shingon file:Koyasan (Mount Koya) monks.jpg, Shingon monks at Mount Koya is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia, originally spread from India to China through traveling monks suc ...

temple in Sanuki,

Kagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the southwest and Tok ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It is Temple 88 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. Pilgrims leave their

kongō-zue The is a wooden staff carried by ''yamabushi'' and pilgrims on the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan. The ''kongō-zue'' is said to represent the body of Kūkai and to support the pilgrim along the way; as such it is treated with respect, having its " ...

at the temple when completing the circuit. The Ōkubo-ji temple bell and pilgrim bells have been selected by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan.

References

Buddhist temples in Kagawa Prefecture Shingon Buddhism Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Japan Shikoku Pilgrimage Sites {{Japan-religious-struct-stub

See also

References