Chion-ji Temple

[Kyoto·Chien Temple] After a few days of continuous rainy weather, the sky is like washing, the blue clear transparent, white plum red plum all closed, the cherry blossoms began to bloom hard, really you sing me on the stage, wonderful turns to see, Now blooming is generally known as the spring cherry blossom messenger, the earliest open Katsu cherry.

Zhienyuan. Founded in 1234, the founder is the Shangren of Faran, the largest monastery in Kyoto, the total Honmachi of the Pure Land Zong. Founded by the Disciples of the Faran in 1175, the main church can accommodate more than 3,000 people. The courtyard has the largest gate in Japan and the largest bell in Japan, weighing 74 tons, and it takes 17 monks to work hard to ring it. Because of the exquisite depiction of the other door book "pull the sparrow", walking on the squeaking "cockroach floor" (prevent invasion) and other seven incredible, for the well-known treasures of the court of knowledge.

Feeling okay, can come or not, if you have time, come. When I walked around, I didn't have any special feeling. It was suitable for taking pictures. There were a lot of tourists and the area was very large.

Standing at the foot of Huading Mountain, one of the 36 peaks of Dongshan Mountain in Kyoto, the Pure Land Zongmen General Honshan (General Monastery). Talking about the origin of Zhi En Yuan, we should trace back to the house built here by Lord Faran (1133-1212) in 1175. In the broad temple there are many national treasures, important and precious cultural heritage buildings. For example, the ancestral hall of Lord Faran, which can accommodate 1200 people to visit at the same time, is the largest three-door building in Japan. Many famous gardens here have their own borrowing scenery, such as Yinge Temple Garden by Beishan, Guili Palace Garden by Lanshan, Zhien Court Garden by Huading Mountain, Dade Temple by Birui Mountain and its nearby peaks, etc. Because Kyoto is in the basin surrounded by mountains, only the first effort is needed. The mountain posture is always present for you to enjoy. Every mountain has different features from different perspectives. When they cooperate with the garden scenery, God's masterpiece fits with the masterpiece of the human world, and the wonder is displayed with the human world.

We passed the weekend, and when we entered the gate of a monastery, we found that it was a large open-air market, and there were everything to sell, very grounded, and so many people that we had no impression of the temple itself.

A very small temple, but there is a good open-air market outside the temple, and if you come here, in fact, many people come to this market to buy things, this place, I think it may not mean much.