Yakushi Nyorai is depicted with the left hand holding a jar that contains medicine to cure all kinds of sickness. Yakushi Nyorai lives in the pure world filled with light, the color of lapis lazuli In Buddhism, the east, where the sun rises, is thought to be the place where life is born, and the Yakushi Nyorai who is at the center.
This statue was the principal image of JORURIJI in Kyoto at the time of the temple's founding and is now a Secret Buddha enshrined as the principal image of the three-storied pagoda, a national treasure, which stands on the east side of the temple grounds.
