Meet a Buddhism Prayer and Acupuncturist
Spend time with Zen monks. A day to prepare your mind and body.
- Meet a Buddhism Prayer and Acupuncturist
- ¥18,800 ~
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You will visit a Soto Sect. Zen temple. During this experience, you can spend time participating in the morning rituals, zazen meditation, and other activities that make up a day of Zen monk, all under the guidance of a monk, who is also a qualified acupuncturist.
- Ufuzan Inryoji Temple/Mokujiki Acupuncture Clinic
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Ufuzan Inryoji Temple/Mokujiki Acupuncture Clinic is a Soto sect temple located on the mountainside surrounded by nature in Nantan City.Mr. Kuroda, a monk, runs the temple where the 'Smiling Buddha', a Mokujiki Buddha, is said to have been hand-carved by Mokujiki Shonin, an itinerant monk from the Edo period. He came to live at this temple due to a connection he had when he was a student, and thought, 'At this temple, I could make people smile through both acupuncture and Buddhism.' He began working as an acupuncturist and practicing Buddhism. I was encouraged. I want to make people smile and smile when they come. A young monk is waiting for you.
- A Buddhism Prayer and Acupuncturist
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Mr. Kuroda is from Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He decided to become an acupuncturist because he was impressed by how quickly acupuncture healed injuries he sustained during club activities. When he was in college, his teacher told him that he could live at Inryoji Temple if he would protect it, which led him to become a monk. He decides to live in a temple anyway, so he begins to study Buddhism. In 2019, I studied Buddhism for about a year at Koshoji Temple, the first Soto Zen dojo to open. In addition to providing treatment at an acupuncture clinic and working as a monk, he also holds zazen experiences and study sessions and events on oriental medicine. We aim to be a temple where people gather.
- He says
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“Eating and cleaning are things we do on a daily basis, but I think that by facing and concentrating on each of the activities we normally do, we can feel something new and different , and review our daily lives.
I hope you will enjoy the luxury of sitting and doing nothing.”
- Ubu-zan Inryoji Temple
- Monk Kuroda
- Kuroda is a monk who runs Ubu-zan Inryoji Temple, Soto Zen. While running the temple, he opened Mokujiki Acupuncture Clinic next to the main hall of temple in 2017. As a monk as well as an acupuncturist, he listens to the problems of those who come to the temple, and also organizes events such as Zen meditation experience and oriental medicine lecture, aiming to make the temple a place where people gather.
Access
- Nantan (30 mins.train ride & 10 mins.walk from Kyoto Station)
- JR Yagi Station is accessible from Kyoto Station via 30 mins. / 510 JPY train ride
- 10 mins. /about 2,500 JPY taxi ride from JR Yagi Station