Hometown Stories
Season 1 • Episode 3: A Millennium of Prayers • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: A Millennium of Prayers
February 20, 2011 • 50 min
This program shows how ancient religious practices survive on the Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita Prefecture, regarded as the home of the Buddha, and long known as a site for ascetic mountain training. Last year, during a "Mineiri" religious austerity being practiced for the first time in a decade, around 20 ascetics dressed in white made a pilgrimage that included crossing ten mountain ridges.
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