At Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, Shinto priests and monks from Enryakuji Temple on Mt.
The "Kitano Goryoe" at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City, is a Shinto-Buddhism fusion ceremony that is said to have started more than 1,000 years ago. , was revived for the first time in about 550 years.
On the 4th, approximately 30 people, including Shinto priests from Kitano Tenmangu and priests from Enryakuji Temple on Mt.
Next, a Buddhist monk read out the Lotus Sutra and threw paper in the shape of a lotus flower.
After this, Mitsuzumi Sasaki, the high priest of Enryaku-ji Temple, offered Tamagushi, and Shinto and Buddhism joined together to pray for the end of the new coronavirus and world peace.