Virtual Yokohama City 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #26 Hoshaku-ji Temple

     All the written documents were burned down in the fire during the Edo Period. According to the information based on hearsay, Hoshaku-ji Temple was founded in 1190’s, when the Kamakura Shogunate was established.

     The temple name Hoshaku comes from Ratnakuta Sutra.  The sutra was translated into Chinese by Priest Dharmaraksa.  Ratna meant treasure and kuta accumulation.  The 2 Chinese characters which were allocated for ratna and kuta were pronounced ho and shaku in Japanese.

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