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Kimpusen-ji
Summary
is the head temple of a branch of the Shugendō religion called Kinpusen-Shugendō in Yoshino district, Nara Prefecture, Japan. According to tradition, it was founded by En no Gyōja, who propagated a form of mountain asceticism drawing from Shinto and Buddhist beliefs. Along with Ōminesan-ji Temple, it is considered the most important temple in Shugendō.
The temple's main building, the "Zaō-Hall" (Zaōdō) dedicated to Zaō gongen (蔵王権現), is the second largest wooden structure in Japan after the Great Buddha Hall at Tōdai-ji in Nara. Kinpusen-ji is a junction in a series of stops on routes.
A Shinto shrine dedicated to Inari Ōkami is attached to the main compound. In 1963, the Temple constructed a hall named Southern Court Mystic Law Hall (Nanchō Myōhōden) to appease the soul of the four emperors of the Southern Court and others who lost their lives in many battles since the "Northern and Southern Courts period" (Nanboku-chō period, 1336–1392). The principal image is the statue of Gautama Buddha (Shaka Nyōrai).
In 2004, it was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name .
File:Kinpusenji niomon2.jpg|Gate with guardians
File:Kinpusenji nio2.jpg|Statue of the wrath-filled and muscular guardian [[Nio]]
File:Kinpusenji zaodo1.jpg|Zaōdō (Deity: Zaō gongen, "Avatar Zaō")
File:Kinpusenji zaodo2.jpg|entrance of Zaōdō
File:Zao-Gongen-Kimpusen-Temple-Yoshino.jpg|one of the three Zaō-gongen statues in the Zaōdō
File:Kinpusenji zaodo3.jpg|carvings
File:Kinpusenji Yoshino Nara08n4272.jpg|Bell tower (Shorō)
File:Kinpusenji Yoshino Nara04n4272.jpg|Aizendō (deity: Aizen myōō, Sanskr. [[Rāgarāja]])
File:Kinpusenji Yoshino Nara03n4272.jpg|Kannondō (deity: Kannon bosatsu, "Bodhisattva [[Guanyin]]")
File:Kinpusenji Yoshino Nara06n3200.jpg|Itoku Tenmangu
File:Kinpusenji Inari1.jpg|Attached Inari shrine (Deity: Hisatomi Daimyōjin)
File:Kinpusenji Inari3.jpg|Inari shrine
File:Kinpusenji nanchomyohoden1.jpg|Nanchō myōhō-den
File:En no gyoja-Kimpusen-ji.
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