Actual Ika 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #5 Dogan-ji Temple

     We stayed in a hotel near Sugaura.  Next morning, we visited Sugaura village first.  After the visit, we drove southward.  On our way back to Osaka, we dropped in on the Avalokitesvara statue.  A guidebook had suggested it’s in Kogen-ji Temple, and another said it’s in Dogan-ji Temple.  We were quite confused.  We parked, and first found Kogen-ji Temple.  It didn’t seem to be open to tourists.  We kept walking and found a temple gate.  The precincts seemed to be open to tourists.  The statue was not in the main hall.  Instead, they had an exhibition hall, where we met the most beautiful Avalokitesvara statue in our lives.

     Dogan-ji Temple, where no priest lives, and the exhibition hall as well are officially administered by Kogen-ji Temple, and actually run by the villagers.