Prince Kan'in Haruhito (deceased)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 3 August 1902
RIP: 14 June 1988
Ethnicity: Japanese
Occupation: Veteran, entrepreneur
Note: With the abolition of the collateral branches of the Imperial family and other titles of nobility by the American occupation authorities on 14 October 1947, he became a commoner, and was purged from public life because of his former military career.
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A 13th-century sculpted image of Misshaku Kongōshi (密迹金剛士), one of the guardian deities among the entourage of Thousand-Armed Kannon Bodhisattva (千手観音菩薩) at Sanjūsangendō Hall (三十三間堂) in Kyoto, corresponding generally to the Niō (仁王) standing watch at temple gates
Image from a booklet acquired at the temple March 19, 1994
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那羅延堅固王 (ならえんけんごおう)
憤怒の形相で真理の門を開き、善を勧めます。
(阿形)
密迹金剛力士 (みっしゃくこんごうりきし)
堅固な知恵で仏法に背く者を打ち砕き
衆生済度の手助けをします。
(吽形)
那羅延堅固は念怒の形相で真理の門を聞き、衆生済度の霊場を護ります。密迹金剛と那羅延堅固は阿吽の対になっており、吽形の密迹金剛が悪を断じるのに対し、阿形の那羅延堅固は衆生に善の心を芽生えさせます。
念佛宗 総本山 観音堂 2008年 楠材
佛教之王堂は佛法に基づいて建立され
全ての部位に仏縁を結ぶ教えが込められています。
「信は荘厳より起こる」
YouTube 仏教美術の宝箱 念佛宗
「三十三観音 観音堂」
https://youtu.be/K_yZYVA9YlE
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The front gate (仁王門 “niōmon”) to Matsunoodera (松尾寺) in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, founded in 708 according to temple lore, with the gate itself dating to a 1730 reconstruction sponsored by the daimyō lord Makino Hideshige (牧野英成)
Photo by Alpsdake on April 4, 2020
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新宗教創始者伝・大本-出口なお・出口王仁三郎の生涯
伊藤栄蔵
講談社
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