Jinja Daiō (深沙大王)
A water deity said to remove epidemics and keep demons at a distance.
Jinja Daiō is a water deity, best known from the account in which he saves the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang in the desert on the journey to India. Jindai-ji in Chofu is named after him and was founded to enshrine him, and describes him as originally a deity effective at removing epidemics and keeping demons at a distance. The temple turns the six hundred volumes of the great sutra in his hall each October, beneath a painting that shows him in demon form facing Xuanzang.
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