TEMPLE healing water legend

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Yokoku-Ji, Yanagidani Kannon, Kyoto.

柳谷観音（Yookoku-Ji 楊谷寺）
長岡京市浄土谷堂ノ谷2　 Donotani-2 Jododani, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto



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The temple is famous for its Hydrangea Park with more than 4,500 plants,
Ajisai-no-michi　紫陽花の道.

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Kannon no O-koozui 観音の独鈷水（おこうずい） Kannon no Okozui
"Vajra Water" at Yokoku Kannon 柳谷観音独鈷水



When 弘法大師 Kukai Kobo Daishi visited the temple for the first time, he saw a mother monkey trying to comfort her ill baby monkey by washing its eyes with the spring water. The eyes of baby monkey soon got better and he could see again. So he took his Vajra 独鈷 to open up the spring a bit more, and it flows to our day.
When Emperor 霊元天皇 Reigen Tenno (1654 - 1732) suffered from an eye disease, he was cured with this water and ever more visitors came.


. tokko 独鈷 と伝説 Legends about the Vajra Thunderbolt .


. ganbyoo chiyu kigan 眼病治癒祈願
prayer for healing of eye disease .

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