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. Yakushi Nyorai - 薬師如来 - Introduction .
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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru
Yakushidake - mountains
Yakushiyu, Yakushi no yu - hot springs
. Legends about Yakushi Nyorai .
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Niigata 新潟県
加茂市，南蒲原郡
Yoneyama Awagatake Awayakushi 米山，粟ケ岳，粟薬師
Once upon the time of the Gods,
the two mountains Yoneyama and Awagatake tried to find out which one could hold more water. In the end the water began to flow towart Awagatake. The female deity called Awa Yakushi took her undergarment (koshimaki腰巻) and tired to stop the flow until both mountains were about the same size.
Some say the name of the mountain is also 薬師岳 Yakushidake.
And at Yoneyama the name of the deity was 恵那薬師 Ena Yakushi, later pronounced Yone.
It is a mountain where Yakushi Nyorai lives 薬師如来の住む山.
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Toyama 富山県
Yakushidake, Yakushi-Dake 薬師岳 Mount Yakushi
In the Hida Mountain Range. 2,926 meters
With the 薬師岳圏谷（カール）群 at its feet.
There are a few mountains with this same name in the prefectures, but this is the highest peak. It is a sacred mountain symbolizing the Paradise of Yakushi and at its top is a small sanctuary with a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
There is also a small Fudo Myo-O at his side.
Upstream of the river 和田川 Wadagawa there is a small settlement called 有峰（ありみね） Arimine, said to date back to the times of the Heike 平家落人. They built a small sanctuary on top of the mountain and come here to celebrate every year on the 15th of June.
- reference about Heike 薬師 平家落人 -
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Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 / Yakushiyu 薬師湯 Yakushi Hot Spring
お薬師さん 温泉 - Yakushi and Onsen Hot springs
There are various hot springs including the name of Yakushi.
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- - - - - Nagano 長野県 小諸市 Komoro
Hishinomura no nana fushigi 菱野村の七不思議
Yakushi no koomyoo 薬師湯の光明 the rays of Yakushi
御仏の影やうつると見ゆばかり光清くも澄める御湯かな。
Yakushiyu has been found by 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kukai.
And even 源頼朝 Minamoto no Yoritomo has bathed here.
Omachi Onsen - 薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu
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Yakushi-no-Yu is Omachi Onsen's main bathhouse.
One of the indoor baths is pure onsen water but the temperature was so low, nobody was bathing in it. Instead, everyone was in the larger indoor bath which is heated and recirculated. The outdoor bath was spacious but would have been more enjoyable if it had a view of the Alps. The outdoor bath made of river rocks is only operating in the summer.
- source : www.go-nagano.net
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- - - - - Tottori 鳥取県
The daughter of a village elder got sick. When she made a wish for getting better to a Yakushi with some a Iris (shobu) 菖蒲にあるお薬師さん , at night Yakushi appeared in her dream (as the "dream deity 枕神 makuragami) and told her to dig under the willow tree at her home, where hot water would come forth.
When they did as told, a golden statue of Yakushi Nyorai was found there and then an abundant hot spring began to gush.
長者の娘が病気になった。菖蒲にあるお薬師さんに平癒を祈ると、お薬師さんが娘の枕神に立ち、帰って柳の木の下を掘ると湯が出るのでそれを使えと告げた。その通りにすると、金色のお薬師さんの像が出てきて、熱い湯がわき出した。
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Ibaraki ? Ishioka 石岡
Shobuzawa no Yakushi 菖蒲沢薬師
菖蒲沢の薬師」は、筑波四面薬師の一つで 、その昔は大変にぎわいました。この薬師古道は、水の神様「龍神様」や「天白稲荷神社」などいろいろな地域資源が点在し、地域の歴史や里山の景観を楽しめる森林浴の道です。
- source : www.city.ishioka.lg.jp
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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database
YAKUSHI NYORAI, YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA Buddha of Medicine and Healing
Yakushi literally means Medicine Teacher
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
(Jp. = Jōruri 浄瑠璃, Skt. = Vaiduryanirbhasa).
Yakushi's full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
meaning Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Commonly shown holding medicine jar in left hand.
Among the 88 temples on the well-trodden Shikoku Pilgrimage, 23 are dedicated to Yakushi, second only to the 29 sites dedicated to Kannon (Goddess of Mercy).
- source : Mark Schumacher -
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