Chōgaku-ji

Chōgaku-ji
長岳寺
Chōgaku-ji's Rōmon (tower gate)
Religion
AffiliationBuddhist
SectKōyasan Shingon-shū
PrefectureNara
Location
MunicipalityTenri
CountryJapan
Shown within Nara Prefecture
Chōgaku-ji (Japan)
PrefectureNara
Coordinates34°33′39″N 135°51′07″E / 34.56083°N 135.85194°E / 34.56083; 135.85194
Architecture
FounderKūkai
Established824
Website
chogakuji.or.jp (Japanese)

Chōgaku-ji (Japanese: 長岳寺) is a Japanese Buddhist temple of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect in the city of Tenri in Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is located within Yamato-Aogaki Quasi-National Park along the Yamanobe no michi (Japanese: 山辺の道), the oldest road in Japan, at the foot of Mt. Ryūō in the Sanuki Mountains. The temple is the fourth of the thirteen Buddhist sites of Yamato, and the nineteenth of the twenty-five Kansai flower temples.