Daizen-ji Rokujizōson Temple — Local services in Kyoto

After lunch,the next destination was just across the JR Nara Line.

Fushimi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #31 Daizen-ji Temple Daizen-ji Temple is said to have been founded in 705 by Monk Joue (643-666), the son of Fujiwara Kamatari (614-669). The standing statue of Ksitigarbha enshrined in Daizen-ji Temple is said to be one of 6 Ksitigarbha statues carved from a single piece of cherry wood by Ono Takamura (802-853) in 852. Legend has it that, in the year, he died, went to the underworld, met Ksitigarbha there, and was then revived. Originally, six Jizo statues were enshrined in the temple, but, during the Hogen Era (1156-1159), Taira Kiyomori (1118-1181) ordered Monk Saiko (?-1177) to enshrine the 5 of them at the main entrances to the capital, Kyoto, according to tradition: Jozen-ji Temple at the entrance from Nara, Jizo-ji Temple at the entrance from Osaka, Genko-ji Temple at the entrance from Wakasa Province, Jozen-ji Temple at the entrance from Tanba Province, and Tokurin-an Temple at the entrance from eastern provinces. The distribution gave rise to the custom of making a pilgrimage to the 6 Ksitigarbha statues, known as the Six Jizo Pilgrimage. Ksitigarbha is Jizo in Japanese. Saiko's secular name was Fujiwara Moromitsu and he was subject to Fujiwara Michinori (1106-1160). Michinori was killed by Fujiwara Nobuyori (1133-1159), who was killed by Taira Kiyomori (1118-1181), whose children were killed by Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-1199). For your information, Takamura was recorded to have gone on Ise 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. He was an associate counselor in the Imperial Court of Japan, and was also a good tanka poet. His tanka poems appeared in Hyakunin Isshu (a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese tanka poems by one hundred poets) and in Kokin Wakashu (namely, "Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times” compiled in the 10th century). He was so capable, competent, and efficient that legend has it that he helped Yama to judge the dead in Hell at night, while he worked for the Imperial Court in the daytime.

Jozen-ji Temple Address: 93 Kamitoba Minamiiwanomotocho, Minami Ward, Kyoto, 601-8139 Phone: 075-691-3831

Jizo-ji Temple Address: 9 Katsurakasugacho, Nishikyo Ward, Kyoto, 615-8071 Phone: 075-381-3538

Genko-ji Temple Address: 1 Tokiwaumazukacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto, 616-8225 Phone: 075-881-6807

Jozen-ji Temple Address: 338, Jozenji Monzencho, Kita Ward, Kyoto 603-8139 Phone: 075-231-1619

Tokurin-an Temple Address: 16 Shinomiyasensuicho, Yamashina Ward, Kyoto, 607-8044 Phone:...

京の盆行事の一つで、地蔵巡りは8月の22日、23日のみ開かれる行事でここ大善寺(伏見地蔵)、浄善寺(鳥羽地蔵)、地蔵寺(桂地蔵)、源光寺(常盤地蔵)、上善寺(鞍馬口地蔵)、徳林庵(山科地蔵)の6ヶ所ある。なお何処から廻ってもよいとされる。

六地蔵とは地獄、餓鬼、畜生、修羅 人間、天上の六道に迷い苦しむそれぞれの衆生を救済するための仏様であるという。 1130年前、小野篁(おののたかむら)が考えた霊像とのこと。 京の800年来続く伝統行事とされている。

篁が48歳の時、大病にかかり瀕死の状態におちり、夢遊の中で地獄世界にゆき、恐ろしい地獄の猛火の中に一人の尊い(修行僧)=比丘（びく)が慈悲の手を差し伸べて衆生を助けていた。釈迦如来が滅した後、代わりに末世の衆生を救っていたのである!

これに篁はいたく感激して、木幡山の桜の大木を切って六体の地蔵様を作った。これをまた、後白河上皇は疫病退散や旅人の路上安全を願い、京の街道の入口の六ヶ所に一体づつ分けて御尊像...

六地蔵駅(地下鉄)から徒歩7分、六地蔵巡りの発祥の地でも有る。 創建が慶雲2年(705)定恵によって開山、本尊に阿弥陀如来を祀る今は天台宗の寺院です。

地蔵堂に祀られるのが小野篁(おののたかむら）48才の時、病気になり地獄に落ちたという。苦しむ人を見て、私もこういう世界に落ちたと思いきや、僧侶に出会う。僧侶は「汝、娑婆世界(しゃば=人間の住む所)に帰らば一切の人に地獄の苦痛を知らしめて我に帰依せよ」と… 生き返った小野篁は１本の桜の木から地蔵菩薩像を刻み、この大善寺に納めたのだ。それが六体、六地蔵の名前の由来になっているという😉

毎年8/22～23、六地蔵巡りという名物の催しがある。地蔵像を彫ったその後、1157年に後白河天皇の命を受けて平清盛が6ヶ所に別けて安置させる。理由は京都の守護の際の街道の入口に移したのだ。

それが西国街道の浄禅寺、丹波街道の地蔵寺、周山街道は源光寺、鞍馬街道には上善寺、東海道は徳林院、そして奈良街道の大善寺。清盛の時代にね...