A place of funerals that conveys the transience of this world

The temple was built about 1,200 years ago during the Heian period (794-1185), and this area has been a place of funerals since ancient times, first with wind burial and later with earth burial, where people dedicated a stone Buddha and grieved for their eternal separation.
The word “Adashino” is a wish to go to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
Many of the stone Buddhas and pagodas on the temple grounds had been buried scattered in the mountains and fields of Adashino for hundreds of years, but in the mid-Meiji period, they were collected and carefully buried with the cooperation of local people.
The stone pagoda is a place where one can feel the scenery of the four seasons, as well as a sense of awe and the impermanence of this world.