Koyasu Daishi with a Child

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Daruma Pilgrims Gallery

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Daishi with a Child

Koyasu Daishi、子安大師



The speciality here is that Daishi sama is not wearing his shoes while standing. You can see the shoes and the ritual water container (kundika) on the stone relief below the figure.

Read more about this water vessel here:
KUNDIKA Discussion / PMJS Group 2008


Temple Yakushi-In, Takahashi
My Visit in April 2008


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子授招福大師 Kosazuke Daishi

Shikoku Pilgrimage, Temple Nr. 2, Gokuraku-Ji 極楽寺



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Kobo Daishi for a modern need:


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金剛寺本尊子安弘法大師



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Aichi Japan

The Statue of Koyasu-Daishi sits on the top of Mount Kobo. The 100-foot-high statue rises into the sky looking down on the whole Mikawa area with benevolence. Religious people in Nagoya began to build it in the spring of 1934.
After five years it was completed and dedicated.

There is a story: when he was pursuing his way in Shikoku, a sacred island, the preist Kobo met a women who was in a difficult labor and he saved her life and her baby's by prayer.
Since then, the statue holding a child in it's arms is called Koyasu-Daishi and it is believed to posses divine powers of conception, an easy labor, and good health.
Kukai, Koyasu-Daishi, founded the secrective sect called Shingon-Syu, a kind of Buddhism. He would be a counterpart of Christ in the western world.
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Daishi is wearing his sandals here:


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. Koyasu no kami 子安の神 Child Protectors .


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