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Also referred to as the First mandala. A small wooden painting. The oldest of the Three Joudo Mandalas *joudo sanmandara ςyOΦδΆ . It has the simplest composition of the three, for unlike the *Taima mandara ΦδΆ and *Seikai mandara ΄CΦδΆ , it does not include scenes from the preface of the KANMURYOUJUKYOU Ο³Κυo , in the left, right and bottom courts (see *Kangyou hensou ΟoΟ). Traditionally said to have been envisioned by the Sanron O_ school monk Chikou qυ (709-ca.790) from Gangouji ³». The miraculous story be hide the mandala, related in such texts as Yoshishige Yasutane's c Ϋϋ NIHON OUJOU GOKURAKUKI ϊ{ΆΙyL (late 10c) and Eikan's iΟ OUJOU SHUUIN ΆEφ is as follows: Chikou shared a room with a monk named Raikou υ at Gangouji, where they practiced religious devotions. After Raikou died, Chikou prayed for his friend and learned that he had been reborn in *Amida's ’νΙ Western Paradise gokuraku joudo Ιyςy. Chikou longed for rebirth in Amida's Pure Land. Raikou appeared to him in a dream and told him he should practice inner visualization of Amida and his Pure Land; Amida himself showed him how by revealing to him a miniature Paradise in the palm of his hand. Upon awakening, Chikou had an artist paint what he had seen. *KAKUZENSHOU oTηβ, a collection of iconographical drawings by the Shingon ^Ύ monk Kakuzen oT (1143-1212) dating to around 1200, indicates the original mandala was a small painting about 30cm (one shaku Ϊ) square. This was lost to fire in the Muromachi period. Two extant example at Gokurakubou ΙyV, Gangouji in Nara, are a large (182cm square) wooden panel painting (early Kamakura period) and small painting (30cm square) on silk in a miniature shrine *zushi ~q (early Muromachi period). | ||||||
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