Virtual Hachioji 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #2 Kansei-ji Temple

 

     The area where Kansei-ji Temple is located today used to be called Ashigasawa, namely Reed Stream.

     One night, something beaming unusual came flying to the stream.  The locals visited the stream next morning, wondering what it was, and found an 1000-armed 1000-eyed Avalokitesvara statue and others.  The people enshrined them along the stream, and Monk Hochin took care of them.

     Priest Junko, the second priest of Shingen-in Temple, Hachioji 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #3, retired and built Dentsu-an Hermitage where the statues had been enshrined.  The hermitage was recorded in 1468, so everything must have happened before the 15th century.

     Priest Rintatsu, the seventh priest of Singen-in Temple, adored Junko, renewed the hermitage, and renamed it Kansei.

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