Tō-ji
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Tō-ji Temple , also known as Kyō-ō-gokoku-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple in the Minami-ku ward of Kyoto, Japan.
View of the Tō-ji complex
Five-storied Pagoda (National Treasure)
Close-up of the Five-storied Pagoda
Five roofs of Toji-ji, Kyoto
Shingon Buddhism
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Shingon is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is sometimes also called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, or Eastern Esotericism. The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言, which is the translation of the Sanskrit word mantra.
Danjō garan of Kongōbu-ji, the head temple of the Kōyasan sect based in Mount Kōya
Painting of Kūkai from a set of scrolls depicting the first eight patriarchs of the Shingon school. Japan, Kamakura period (13th–14th centuries).
Jingo-ji, on Mount Takao, the first major temple in which Kūkai worked on his return to Japan
Shingon monks at Mount Koya