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The Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kyoto(京都十三仏霊場, ''Kyōto jūsan butsu reijō'') are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area along wi ...
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Kyoto Prefecture. The majority of the temples in this grouping are part of Japanese esoteric
Shingon Buddhism
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 such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.
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and the
Rinzai school.
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Thirteen Buddhas
The is a Japanese grouping of Buddhist deities, particularly in the Shingon sect of Buddhism. The deities are, in fact, not only Buddhas, but include bodhisattvas and Wisdom Kings. In Shingon services, lay followers recite a devotional mantra ...
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Buddhist temples in Kyoto
Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Japan