Koyasan
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1200 years of samādhi at Okunoin Cemetery, Mount Koya
Good afternoon from Japan’s largest cemetery, where over 200,000 souls repose. Also here is Kūkai who is believed to have been in a state of deep meditation called #samadhi since the year 835. That’s 1,200 years ago. #Okunoin #Japan
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Dhritarashtra at the Chumon Gate in Koyasan, Japan
The Chumon Gate in Koyasan, Japan is a very sacred place that was founded in ~815. They just rebuilt this gate 10 years ago for the 1200th anniversary of this place. So this place is older than Poland. Behind me, I think, is Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Buddhist guardian king of the East. His name is interesting.…