Sanno Miya Mandara: The Iconography of Pure Land on this Earth From: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Arichi, Meri | Copyright Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Sanno miya mandara, now in the collection of the Nara National Museum, is a well-known image, often mentioned to illustrate the shinbutsu shugo (kami-buddha combination) aspect of the belief in the kami Sanno of the Hie Shrine in the province of Omi (the present day Shiga Prefecture). The shrine flourished in close association with the nearby Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei during the medieval period. The rows of Siddham characters and the figures of twenty-one Buddhist deities with corres...

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