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Extract from the Koya-san Travel Guides: Ever since the Buddhist monk Kobo Daishi founded a temple here in the early ninth century, KOYA-SAN , some 50km south of Osaka, has been one of Japan's holiest mountains. On top is an elongated, cedar-filled valley perched 800m above sea level, where more than one hundred monasteries cluster round the head temple of the Shingon sect, Kongobu-ji . This isolated community is then protected by two concentric mountain chains of eight peaks each, which are said to resemble an eight-petalled lotus blossom.

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