Adashino Nembutsu-ji
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Adashino Nembutsuji (化野念仏寺) is a Buddhist temple in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. In 811 Kūkai is said to have founded a temple, then Honen altered to present Nenbutsuji. Situated high on a hill overlooking the city from the northwest, it sits in an area where since Heian period people abandoned the bodies exposing to the wind and rain. Now, some eight thousand Buddhism statuettes, collected around 1903 then scattering around Adashino, memorialize the souls of the dead.