Last Sunday 1,200 year from construction celebration ritual was held at Sasano Kannon Temple (Sasano Avalokitesvara Temple, >sasanokannon.com in Japanese) in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture.Sasano Kannon Temple is a Shingon Buddhism temple which is said to constructed in Jul., 810. The main image is a Sahasra-bhuja Sahasra-netra(=Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed) Avalokitesvara. Along with the Sasano-bori(Vintage folk toy Sasano wood carving hawk) is very famous (>kanpu.net in Japanese).
On climax of the ritual, Monks were skimming all of the Mahaprajnaparamita sutra (=Large Sutra on the Perfection of Wisdom) for pray about everyone's happiness. The youtube-movie below is beginning of the sutra skimming.
