World Heritage Site in Japan / Koyasan Part-3 / When is Kobo Daishi's Birthday?

As I have mentioned in our previous blog that on March 8th, 2016,
I visited temples on Koyasan to take videos of a tree-planting ceremony.

 

 

Who is Kobo Daishi (Kukai) (774-835) ?

 

Roughly speaking, he is the person who studied Buddhism,
discovered Koyasan (mountains),
built a temple on the extremely high mountains
and he founded a religion, Shingon Buddhism.

 

As I introduced in our previous blog that Kobo Daishi (Kukai) (774-835)

was the priest who built Kongobuji Temple on Koyasan,

now you know that he was the extremely important person in Japan and Buddhist history.

 

Do you know when his birthday is?

 

It is said that he was born on June 15th, 774 at Zentsuji Temple in Kagawa Prefecture.

Actually, no one knows his correct birthday,
but on every June 15th, his birthday celebration is held in Shingon Buddhism Temples
in Japan. So we say June 15th is his birthday.

 

Famous persons who have the same birthday as his are follows.

 

Issa Kobayashi (haiku poet from Japan),

Billy Leo Williams (baseball player from USA),

Johnny Hallyday (singer and actor from France) and so on.

 

Do you know anyone was born on June 15th?

If you do, please let him/her know.
Maybe she/he will be happy know that.

 

T.F