Tsukubasan Omido
Main Image Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara Bosatsu (Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Kannon) Category Bosatsu (Bodhisattva)
Impression TagsGentlenessSolemnityPurity
DescriptionThe principal image of Tsukubasan Omido is the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, an Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Kannon represented with eleven faces and forty-two arms. The thousand arms symbolize the limitless reach of compassionate salvation. The temple traces its origin to 782, when a Thousand-Armed Kannon was enshrined in a hall on the slopes of Mount Tsukuba. During the separation of Buddhism and Shinto in the Meiji period, the principal image was protected by Gokokuji Temple, helping preserve the tradition until Omido was restored. When the new main hall was rebuilt in 2020, the image was restored to recreate its original appearance and its gold leaf was finished with an aged tone before it was returned to the hall. As the 25th temple of the Bando Thirty-Three Kannon pilgrimage, it is open from 9:00 to 16:00, and visitors may enter the hall to worship close to the image.
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