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5 unusual facts about Ksitigarbha


Cat Soup

By accident, Nyatta drowns in the bathtub and, whilst being clinically dead, sees his sister leaving the house holding hands with the Japanese version of Ksitigarbha (known as Jizou in Japanese) and proceeds to follow them.

Ksitigarbha

The anime series Hell Girl is also loosely based on the legend of Jizō and the zanpakuto of Mayuri Kurotsuchi from the manga series Bleach is Ashisogi Jizo (leg-cutting Jizō).

At the pre-Tang Dynasty grottos in Dunhuang and Longmen, he is depicted in a classical bodhisattva form.

One of these pilgrims was a former prince from Silla named Kim Gyo-gak, who became a monk under the name of Earth Store (also called Jijang, the Korean pronunciation of Dizang).

Shuangfupu, Ningxiang

Baiyun Temple is a buddhism temple in Huilong Mountain (回龙山), it was built in the Tang Dynasty and later destroyed and rebuilt several times, where Mao Zedong made social research in 1917.Gautama Buddha is the main target of worship, also worship the Three Saints of the West (西方三圣), the Ksitigarbha, and the twenty four Heavens (二十四位诸天).


Tōsen-ji

This temple is famous for the "Bound Jizo" discussed in the Case of the Bound Jizo of Ōoka Tadasuke, a famous judge in Edo (Tokyo) during the Edo period.


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