Shinryū-ji, Buddhist temple in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Shinryū-ji is a Shingon temple of the Kōyasan branch in the Higashi-Fukui 2-chōme district of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. Its main hall was rebuilt in 1972, and the grounds hold a Jizō hall, a chinju hall and a Saigoku Kannon hall, where a Yakushi Nyorai, Twelve Heavenly Generals, Kannon and Gozu Tennō were installed after being moved from Shin'ya Shrine in 1869.
Founded in 748 by Gyōki on the orders of Emperor Shōmu, on a site linked to En no Ozunu, the temple was expanded in the Kōnin era (810–823) by Shinnyo, a leading disciple of Kūkai, who built 21 halls including a gate, bell tower and sutra hall. Burnt in the Ōnin War of 1467 and stripped of its estates by Oda Nobunaga, it declined and was moved to its present location between 1596 and 1615. The main hall was rebuilt in 1972.
In 1869 the temple moved Yakushi Nyorai, the Twelve Heavenly Generals, Kannon and Gozu Tennō here from Shin'ya Shrine in Nishi-Fukui, enshrining them in a Jizō-dō, a chinju-dō and a Saigoku Kannon hall built on the grounds. The main hall was rebuilt in 1972. The temple belongs to the Kōyasan Shingon school.
Shinryū-ji lies in Higashi-Fukui 2-chōme, Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. Take a Hankyū bus bound for Sunny Town or Ninnōji and get off at Fukui-miya-no-mae, then walk about 10 minutes northeast. A D51 steam locomotive, D51 882, is kept on the parking lot.
A D51 steam locomotive, number D51882, is preserved on the temple parking lot, a remnant of the former JNR line. The temple also keeps statues moved here in January 1869 from Shin'ya Shrine in Nishi-Fukui: a Yakushi Nyorai, Twelve Heavenly Generals, Kannon and Gozu Tennō, housed in the Jizō-dō, chinju-dō and Saigoku Kannon-dō.
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