Virtual Akashi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #20 Mangan-ji Temple

 

     Mangan-ji Temple is said to have been founded by Nun Gansai either in 1131 or 1132.  It has been a convent until it became nunless lately.  As the nun died sometime between 1004 and 1012, the temple might have been founded for the late lamented nun.

     Mangan means Ten-Thousand Wishes and the temple's main deity is Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha.  Its Buddhist tanka poem is:

If you make tens of thousands of wishes,

Ekadasamukha picks all of them up

With the white threads of the hands.

Address: Iketani-771 Hasetanicho, Nishi Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2234

Phone: 078-991-0009 (Nyoi-ji Temple)