However, "Anbagaiji engi", handed down for many generations in the temple, tells another story about the start of the temple, which is that Gantei, a high disciple of Ganjin, built a cottage in the 1st Year of Hoki, and enshrined Vaisravana. しかし、寺に伝わる『鞍馬蓋寺縁起』(あんばがいじえんぎ)には別の草創縁起を伝えており、鑑真の高弟鑑禎(がんてい)が宝亀元年(770年)に草庵を結び、毘沙門天を安置したのが始まりという。 |