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*intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
puddin:
I was lead here as well but will look around later, but if anyone is as bored as I am then please feel free to help ;D
Enryakuji ~http://www.xs4all.nl/~daikoku/junrei/reijo/8-ban.htm
Boingo:
--- Quote from: puddin on January 01, 2008, 11:49:19 AM ---I was lead here as well but will look around later, but if anyone is as bored as I am then please feel free to help ;D
Enryakuji ~http://www.xs4all.nl/~daikoku/junrei/reijo/8-ban.htm
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;D FWIW, here's a link to the official Enryakuji web site (english pages)
http://www.hieizan.or.jp/enryakuji/econt/index.html
(saw something about eternal flame on one of the pages)
puddin:
Thanks Boingo :keeta: -- we have to start somewhere, maybe it will lead us to the right place? "Devil be gone!"
Get around
Both Sakamoto and Mt. Hiei are best covered on foot. For going between the two, you can use the Sakamoto Cable Car, which costs ¥840/1570 one-way/round-trip and runs daily from 8 AM to 5 PM once every 30 minutes. At over 2 km, this is the longest cable car in Japan and takes about 11 minutes for the journey. This cable car line was built in 1927 and refurbished in 1993. The European style cars have large windows with wonderful views of Lake Biwa.
A real pilgrim would of course scoff at mechanical contraptions and climb the mountain, which is fairly easy as this isn't really more than an oversized hill. The traditional route is a convenient path of mossy steps known as Honzaka (本坂), starting from Sakamoto, but it's still 500 meters (vertical) to the top. There are also many other routes, with numerous small temples and waterfalls along the way, but watch out as signposting (even in Japanese) is lacking. You may see monkeys along the way as well.
Konpon Chudō (根本中堂), the central hall of the temple, contains the Inextinguishable Dharma Light (不減の法灯), a fire that has been burning for 1200 years. There is always a monk assigned to tend the fire and chant sutras here.
apskip:
I know that this is a difference in scale, but the most known Eternal Flame is at a Peace Memorial Site in Hiroshima, which is quite a long way from Osaka.
puddin:
Yeah that too apskips.
again I get led back to Thailand which gives us nothing .. fwiw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samson_snow/283752559/
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