| Butsuryū-ji 仏隆寺 | |
| Location: | 1684 Haibara Akabane, Uda, Nara Prefecture |
| Coordinates: | 34.5153°N 136.0097°W |
| Religious Affiliation: | Shingon (Murō-ji branch) |
| Deity: | Jūichimen Kannon |
| Country: | Japan |
| Founded By: | Kenne |
| Year Completed: | 850 |
is a ninth-century Shingon temple in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately four kilometres southwest of Murō-ji across Mount Murō.[1]
According to an official letter dated to 946, Butsuryū-ji was founded in 850 by, disciple of Kukai, under the patronage of Okitsugu; upon Kenne's death, Shinsei and Kanshin succeeded him.[1] An inscription on the temple bell of 863 similarly celebrates the temple's foundation by Kenne.[1] Only a fragment of the bell now survives, preserved at the temple; the inscription is known from copies, including a fourteenth-century version now housed at Kanazawa Bunko.[1] A in the same collection, dating to 1314, locates Kenne's grave at the temple; it is generally identified with Butsuryū-ji's unusual stone chamber with pyramidal roof.[1] Although the present buildings are more recent, a statue of Kenne still stands beside those of Kukai and Jūichimen Kannon on the altar.[1]
Since both Butsuryū-ji and Murō-ji could be referred to as Mount Murō, it appears that the two were sometimes confused or conflated: an early eighteenth-century encyclopaedia refers to the former as Nyonin Kōya or "Kōyasan for Women", an appellation usually reserved for the latter, referring to the ban on female visitation, relaxed in 1872.[2] A stone marker on the road to Butsuryū-ji still proclaims "Mount Murō Nyonin Kōya".[2]
There is also a thirteen-storey stone tō dating to 1330 and dedicated to Shũen, important figure in the early history of Murō-ji.[1]