
*Mt. Osorezan Bodai-ji Temple (aka “Fear Mountain” & “Gateway to Hell”), Mutsu, Aomori, Japan (June 9, 2018)
About 1200 years ago, the Japanese Buddhist priest En’nin was studying Buddhism in China. One night he had a mysterious dream. In the dream a holly monk said to him, “When you return to Japan, go eastward. You will find a sacred mountain in thirty days walk from Kyoto. Carve a statue of the bodhisattva […]