Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology has the honour of inviting you to the meeting with Takashiko Fuke, Abbot of the Miidera Temple in Otsu who will be speaking about life in a Buddhist monastery.

The Miidera Temple in Otsu is considered one of the most beautiful Buddhist temples in Japan, located not far from Kyoto, near Lake Biwa. It is one of the four biggest temples in Japan, founded in 672. It was called Miidera, or Temple of the Three Wells, by one of the earliest abbots of the Tendai sect, the monk Eichin, in reference to the water springs on temple grounds, which were used for the ritual bathing of newborn babies. The principal Pavilion – Kondō – was built in 1599, to replace the destroyed original building; it holds several precious statues of Buddha. Miidera is the fourteenth in the Pilgrimage of 33 Kannon Temples in the Kansai region.