SENSO-JI BUDDHIST TEMPLE, Introduction
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Language: English / USA
Hi, my name’s Scott, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Senso-Ji, the most important Buddhist temple in Tokyo.
The Senso-Ji temple is the most widely visited spiritual site in the world, drawing over 30 million visitors a year to Asakusa, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city.
According to legend, the temple was founded in 645, thanks to two fishermen, the brothers Hinokuma no Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, who found a statue of Guanyin, to whom the temple is dedicated, in the Sumida River on March 18th, 628.
The chief of their village, Haji no Nakamoto, recognized the importance of the statue, and kept it in his own home, turning it into a little shrine so the villagers could worship Guanyin....