Showing posts with label yae-zakura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yae-zakura. Show all posts
June 12, 2025
June 18, 2024
Yae-zakura flowers: Sanjusangen-do Temple (Kyoto)
Sanjusangen-do Temple (hall) is renowned for the 1001 gilded images of Senju Kannon (thousand-armed bodhisattva of divine mercy) enshrined within it.
Kannon in Mahayana Buddhism is the young saint who remains in the human world as a Nirvana Buddha in order to compassionately save people and all living things from all kinds of suffering in this world.
The thousand-armed bodhisattva has the thousand arms for relieving a thousand kinds of pains and agonies in this world.
This temple is located in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto and is the prestigious Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect.
It was founded in 1164 by shogun Taira-no-Kiyomori for the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa. It is officially known as Rengeo-in Temple (lotus-king temple) and belongs to the Myoho-in (lotus-sutra temple) complex.
May 16, 2023
May 14, 2020
Yae-zakura (Double-flowered cherry tree) flowers: Engaku-ji
A long time has passed since the full-blown cherry flowers disappeared completely like a momentary but beautiful daydream of spring. After those flowers had fallen altogether, various fresh leaves are appearing all at once everywhere, which makes me realize how fast time is passing.
In a corner of the quiet garden of Hyak-kannon (one hundred statues of Buddhist deity of compassion), the pale pink flowers of a double‐flowered cherry tree are in full bloom in the gentle afternoon sunlight of late spring.
The flying-dragon in the auspicious clouds sculptured on the Chokushi-mon Gate (gate for imperial envoys), which was once colored splendidly in the old days, symbolizes the virtue and benevolence of the emperor to be received.
April 21, 2013
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