Katsuragi 28 Shuku

The , or the Katsuragi 28 Shuku Kyōzuka, is a series of twenty-eight found mainly in the Kongō Range in the Kansai region of Japan. The majority of the sutra mounds lie within the Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park. According to legend, each of the sutra mounds corresponds to a chapter of the Lotus Sutra buried by En no Gyoja, the mythical 7th-century founder of Shugendō.

List of sutra mounds

Note that for the following table of the sutra mounds, there are two potential sites for mounds 14 and 28, which are designated as 14A, 14B, 28A, and 28B, respectively.

See also

• Shikoku Pilgrimage, 88-temple pilgrimage in Shikoku
• ChÅ«goku 33 Kannon, pilgrimage in the ChÅ«goku region
• Japan 100 Kannon Pilgrimage
• Twenty-Eight Mansions

Further reading

References

External links

• Interactive map of Katsuragi Shugen sites