Asakusa Temple or Sensoji Temple (浅草寺) is one of the most famous Buddhist temples in Japan with a long history and the oldest temple in Tokyo. It was built around the year 628.
According to the legend, two fishermen brothers would go fishing every day on the Sumida River, not far from the temple site. But then one day the two brothers couldn’t catch any fish. Therefore prayed to the sacred thing that he could catch fish. When he tried to cast the net, he came back to be a golden Guanyin Bodhisattva about 5 inches high instead. The two brought them back to the village.
When the head of the village heard about Has improved their home and built a temple to be the place to enshrined the Bodhisattva Guan Yin for people to come to worship Because what you wish for always comes true. Therefore, people from all over the land traveled to pay homage to this Guan Yin Bodhisattva.
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