Sado Kokubun-ji
The Sado Kokubun-ji is a Shingon sect Buddhist temple located in the city of Sado, Niigata, Japan. Its honzon is Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the successor to the Nara period kokubunji National Temples established by Emperor Shōmu for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of the imperial rule to the provinces.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Shingon Shu
- Description: temple in Sado, Niigata
- Also known as: “Sado Kokubun-ji Temple”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Myōsen-ji Temple and Art and Natural History Museum of Sado.
Myōsen-ji Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Yamaguchi Yoshiaki, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Myōsen-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 660 metres northeast of Sado Kokubun-ji.
Art and Natural History Museum of Sado
Museum
Photo: 水乃, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Art and Natural History Museum of Sado is situated 3 km northwest of Sado Kokubun-ji.
Sado Kokubun-ji
- Categories: provincial temple, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Sado, Niigata, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.96692° or 37° 58′ 1″ northLongitude
138.36848° or 138° 22′ 7″ eastInception
8th centuryOpen location code
8Q9WX989+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 914955260OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=shingon_shuWikidata ID
Q29407937
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Sado Kokubun-ji” goes by many names.
- French: “Sado Kokubun-ji”
- French: “temple Kokubun de Sado”
- French: “Temple Kokubun de Sado”
- Indonesian: “Wihara Sado Kokubun-ji”
- Japanese: “Sado-kokubun-ji”
- Japanese: “さどこくぶんじ”
- Japanese: “佐渡国分寺”
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Highlights include Main Hall and 瑠璃堂.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sado Kokubun-ji”. Photo: Brown-shippings, CC BY-SA 3.0.