福井県勝山市・平泉寺白山神社と大師山清大寺・越前大仏・KATSUYAMA, Fukui Prefecture: The Old and the New

福井県勝山市・平泉寺白山神社と大師山清大寺・越前大仏・KATSUYAMA, Fukui Prefecture: The Old and the New

福井県勝山市にある平泉寺白山神社の境内は白山国立公園特別指定区域内に位置しています。木々の中の石畳を拝殿へ進むと両側に美しい苔を見ることができます。また、勝山市には大師山清大寺に日本一の大きさを誇る”越前大仏”を拝観することができます。
The religious site known today as “Heisen-ji Hakusan Jinja (Shrine)” was established in the early 8th Century as a Buddhist temple. Since the mid-19th Century, following the official separation of Buddhist and Shinto religions by the new Meiji government, it has been a Shinto shrine (although, unusually, its name still makes reference to the Buddhist temple, Heisen-ji). The shrine is situated in the foothills of Mt Hakuba within the city of Katsuyama in Fukui Prefecture. By contrast, Seidai-ji temple, which is known for “Echizen Daibutsu”, Japan’s largest seated Buddha statue, is a modern Buddhist temple complex, built in 1987 with financing from a local businessman in Katsuyama City.

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