Gokurakuji
Gokuraku-ji or Gokurakuji (Japanese: 極楽寺, literally ‘Sukhāvatī Temple’) can refer to a number of things:
People
- The Gokurakuji family of samurai
Temples
- A number of Buddhist temples in Japan:
- Gokuraku-ji (Kobe) founded in the Arima Onsen complex, in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture in 593
- Gokuraku-ji (Naruto) - founded in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in 815
- Gokuraku-ji founded in Kamakura in 1188, which was later renamed Jōmyō-ji
- Gokuraku-ji (Kamakura) - founded in Kamakura in 1259 by the Jōdo shū
- Gokuraku-ji (Hachiōji) founded in Hachiōji, Tokyo in 1594
- Gokuraku-ji (Gose) in Gose, Nara Prefecture
- Gokuraku-ji (Toyooka) - founded in Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture
- Gokuraku-ji (Hatsukaichi) in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture
- Gokuraku-ji, a sub-temple within Iwashimizu Shrine in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture
See also
- Gokuraku-in - a separate temple, established in the eighth century, in Nara.
- Kitaro Shikoku Peace Bell Project
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