A Deeply-Red “Wisdom King” at the Ushio Kannon Temple

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 —
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“Ragaraja”

Ushio Kannon Temple (牛尾観音), Kyoto Japan

I made another visit to the hard-to-reach Ushio Kannon Temple, which I wrote about a couple of months ago, but this time I
went by car and took my nice camera. The beautiful, rich matte red of this dimly-lit statue caught my eye...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/100 sec, f/2, ISO 3200 —
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愛染明王

I don't know anything about Buddhism, but this statue is apparently of a
Wisdom King named “Ragaraja”, a “dharmapala deity” that is “known to transform
worldly lust into spiritual awakening”, according to Wikipedia.

Visually it's quite interesting, and was one of many in a small, dimly-lit hall.

To be continued...