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Yakushi Nyorai (Budo Yakushi)

薬師如来(ぶどう薬師)

Agriculture & Foodgrapes and winemaking
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Yakushi Nyorai, known as the Medicine Buddha, is venerated in Japanese Buddhism as a figure associated with healing and the alleviation of suffering. The Budo Yakushi form links this Buddha to grape cultivation and, by extension, to agricultural abundance and food-related well-being, a connection rooted in local temple traditions and folk practice. Worshippers have historically approached Yakushi Nyorai through prayer and ritual offerings, though specific outcomes attributed to such devotion remain matters of tradition and belief rather than documented certainty.

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