The Three Great Shrines of Benzaiten (日本三大弁天) are a group of Japanese shrines dedicated to the worship of the goddess Benzaiten. During the Meiji Era separation of Shinto and Buddhism the veneration of the Buddhist water-goddess Benzaiten was replaced by the veneration of the Munakata sanjojin (宗像三女神), three Shinto goddesses of the sea. The official veneration of Benzaiten was moved to separate Buddhist temples. They are enumerated as follows:
(Japan's ThreeGreatBenzaitenShrines); and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima...
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Saraswati (Benzaiten) is arguably the most revered deity in Japan after the Buddha. She forms as a part of the "Seven Gods of Fortune", of which four...
Yokohama, the island and adjacent coastline are the hub of a local resort area. Benzaiten, the goddess of music and entertainment, is enshrined on the island...
the Enoshima Shrine in the Kantō region and the Itsukushima Shrine in the Chūgoku Region as one of Japan's ThreeGreatShrinesofBenzaiten and was a popular...
have their origins as ancient gods of fortune from religions popular in Japan: from Mahayana Buddhism (Benzaiten, Bishamonten, Daikokuten) which came...
Japanese examples derive from Buddhist importations of Indian dragon myths. Benzaiten, the Japanese form of Saraswati, supposedly killed a five-headed dragon...
Catherine Ludvik (2001), From Sarasvati to Benzaiten, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, National Library of Canada; PDF Download "Bishamon | Japanese...
other South Asian, East Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. For example, Benzaiten is a Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati, and the ancient Siddhaṃ...
bodhi, and is frequently represented as a giant cobra. Benzaiten 弁才天 is the Japanese name of the goddess Saraswati, who killed a 3-headed Vritra serpent...
Yuigahama, a popular beach Zeniarai BenzaitenShrine, where visitors go to wash their coins Zuisen-ji, funeral temple of the Ashikaga kubō, rulers in Kamakura...
many as 80% of the populace follow Shinto rituals to some degree, worshiping ancestors and spirits at domestic altars and public shrines. An almost equally...
such a shrine was meant for a male sun deity named Ameno-himitama. Amaterasu was also once worshiped at Hinokuma shrines. The Hinokuma shrines were used...
or more Shinto shrines dedicated to their tutelary kami ("Chinjusha"), and in that case a torii marks the shrine's entrance. Benzaiten is a syncretic...
three statues representing its deities. Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) Dedicated to the goddess Ichikishimahime (originally Benzaiten)...
premises, and the Buddhist goddess Benzaiten is often worshiped at Shinto shrines. As a consequence, for centuries shrines and temples had a symbiotic relationship...
Muromachi period), the three deities Daikokuten, Vaiśravaṇa-Bishamonten and Sarasvatī-Benzaiten were fused together into the three-headed 'Sanmen Daikokuten'...
the ridge of the roof. Junpai (巡拝, lit. 'patrol route') – The custom of visiting a fixed series of 33 or 88 shrines or temples, or shrines-&-temples....
Japan such as the Kamakura's Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine or Nagoya's Kawahara Shrine; the three biggest shrines in Japan in her honour are at the Enoshima...
and summon Hanako-san. In Inokashira Park, Tokyo, there is a shrine to the goddess Benzaiten, as well as Inokashira Pond, a lake where visitors can rent...
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