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*''Founder: [[Shotoku Taishi|Shôtoku Taishi]]''
*''Other Names'': 十二坊
*''Japanese'': 上品蓮台寺 ''(Joubonrendai-ji)''
Jôbonrendai-ji is a [[Shingon]] Buddhist temple in Kyoto, famous chiefly for its associations with the Buddhist sculptor [[Jocho|Jôchô]], who is buried within the grounds.
The temple is said to have been founded originally as Kôryûji by [[Shotoku Taishi|Shôtoku Taishi]], taking the name Jôbonrendai-ji when it was rebuilt in [[960]] upon the wishes of [[Emperor Uda]].
The sculptor Jôchô joined Jôbonrendai-ji when he took the tonsure around the year [[1050]], and founded a [[tatchu|sub-temple]] called Shômei-in, which boasted twelve monks at the time of its establishment.
The temple complex lost many of its buildings in the [[Onin War|Ônin War]] (1467-1477), but much was rebuilt in the 1590s; the high priest Shôsei Shônin also established twelve sub-temples in the area at that time, earning the temple the name "Jûnibô," or "twelve monks."
Jôbonrendai-ji possesses a number of notable treasures, including a piece of calligraphy in which the [[Emperor Murakami]] inscribed the name of the temple, as well as the Eingakyô illustrated [[sutra]] scroll (a [[National Treasure]]), and paintings of [[Jizo|Jizô bodhisattva]] and [[Monju|Monju]] [[bodhisattva]] which are considered Important Cultural Assets.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Heian Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
*''Other Names'': 十二坊
*''Japanese'': 上品蓮台寺 ''(Joubonrendai-ji)''
Jôbonrendai-ji is a [[Shingon]] Buddhist temple in Kyoto, famous chiefly for its associations with the Buddhist sculptor [[Jocho|Jôchô]], who is buried within the grounds.
The temple is said to have been founded originally as Kôryûji by [[Shotoku Taishi|Shôtoku Taishi]], taking the name Jôbonrendai-ji when it was rebuilt in [[960]] upon the wishes of [[Emperor Uda]].
The sculptor Jôchô joined Jôbonrendai-ji when he took the tonsure around the year [[1050]], and founded a [[tatchu|sub-temple]] called Shômei-in, which boasted twelve monks at the time of its establishment.
The temple complex lost many of its buildings in the [[Onin War|Ônin War]] (1467-1477), but much was rebuilt in the 1590s; the high priest Shôsei Shônin also established twelve sub-temples in the area at that time, earning the temple the name "Jûnibô," or "twelve monks."
Jôbonrendai-ji possesses a number of notable treasures, including a piece of calligraphy in which the [[Emperor Murakami]] inscribed the name of the temple, as well as the Eingakyô illustrated [[sutra]] scroll (a [[National Treasure]]), and paintings of [[Jizo|Jizô bodhisattva]] and [[Monju|Monju]] [[bodhisattva]] which are considered Important Cultural Assets.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Heian Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
