Explore the Okunoin Cemetery on Mount Kōya, a pilgrimage site surrounding the mausoleum of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism
Video tour of the vast cemetery of the Okuno Temple on Mount Kōya (west-central Honshu, Japan), a popular place of pilgrimage and site of the mausoleum of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), founder of the Shingon branch of Buddhism.
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