Fragment of Kanjizai Bosatsu Nyoirin Yuga Hoyo 観自在菩薩如意輪瑜伽法要 残巻カンジザイボサツニョイリンユガホウヨウ ザンカン
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This document gives the procedures for the Nyoirin-ho ritual, a ceremony conducted in front of an image of Nyoirin Kannon to extinguish bad karma. This particular Chinese translation is the work of the Tang dynasty priest Jingangzhi (Skt. Vajrabodhi), though there is also a translation by Bukong (Skt. Amoghavajra). The scroll is missing sections at the beginning, but the relatively large size of the characters and the handsome Japanized hand suggest that it was copied in the mid-Heian period. The method in which the manuscript has been punctuated with red marks indicates a connection with the Tendai sect on Mt. Hiei.
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The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
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July 20, 2026