[Description] Daijyo-ji Temple Digital Museum of the Maruyama School

Daijyoji Temple
Digital Museum of the Maruyama School

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In Buddhism, enlightenment comes from the recognition that the self entering the universe and the universe entering the self are one and the same process. The Fusuma-e at Daijyo-ji constructs an ideal space to experience this process. The Buddhist Hall, where the 11-headed Kwannon resides, is reached after passing through the flat land, mountain trails, and steeper mountain ranges of the "Agriculture Room," "Messenger Room," and the "Bare Mountain Room." It is only after gradually moving higher through these spaces that one finally reaches the Buddhist Hall, remote from human civilization in the depths of the mountains.
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Ohkyo created the rooms of Daijyo-ji not only as the mandala of the 11-headed Kwannon, but also as an appropriate training site for religious enlightenment, revealing his efforts to increase the religious effectiveness of his work. Ohkyo was thus not only an artist, but also a deeply religious man and a spatial architect.
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