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Daibutsu (the Great Buddha)
The principal image of the Todaiji Temple popularly known as the Nara Daibutsu. An edict for the erection of a Virushana buddhist statue was issued in 743 and a ceremony to consecrate the newly built statue was carried out in 752. Since it was damaged by warfare several times and subjected to repeated restorations, the only original parts of the statue are the lotus-petal throne and the drapery part of the left femoral region. This huge gilt-bronze image is 15 m high and the circumference of its stylobate is 70 m.
http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/nara/nara19-e.html |
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Daibutsu Todaiji-temple (Nara)
http://www3.kiy.jp/~tourj/nara/dai-1.html |
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Shôsô-in
The Shôsô-in is an eighth-century repository located in a quiet area to the north of the Great Buddha Hall of Tôdai-ji Temple. Originally part of the Tôdai-ji precincts and surrounded by an earthen wall, its azekura ("log storehouse") style storehouse has housed numerous ancient works of art for over twelve hundred years.
http://www.narahaku.go.jp/around/shosoin_e.htm |
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Todai-ji Temple
This is the representative temple of the Nara period and its Daibutsu-den, or Great Buddha's Hall, is the largest wooden structure in the world. In the 15th year of the Tempyo era (743), the Emperor Shomu issued an Imperial edict to cast a great image of Buddha, more technically Buddha Vairocana. This temple was built with an all-out effort to concentrate national power on this Imperial order so that the image could be enshrined.
http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/naracity/e/kan_spot_data/e_si32.html |
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Todai-ji Temple
Todaiji ("Great Eastern Temple") is one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. Todaiji was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka in 784 in order to lower its influence on government affairs. Not only is Todaiji housing Japan's largest Buddha statue (Daibutsu), but it is also the world's largest wooden building, even though the present reconstruction of 1692 is only two thirds of the original temple's size.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4100.html |
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Todai-ji temple
http://www.sight-seeing-japan.com/genr/gjj_todaiji.html |
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Todaiji Temple
Buddhism gained a foothold in Japan after monks from the Korean kingdom of Paekche introduced the faith to the Japanese court. It quickly won an influential following, reaching the highest circles of imperial power by the 7th century. In 685 the Emperor Temmu ordered that every family throughout the land should establish a Buddhist Altar. His descendent Prince Shotuku went further, decreeing that a national branch temple be built in every province. Two years later, in 743, he ordered the construction of a grand national temple to oversee them all. Todaiji was the result.
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/nara/todaijiindex.htm |
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Todaiji Temple
Todaiji, a temple complex in the city of Nara in Nara Prefecture, was built in the year 743. At that time Buddhism was at its height, and served as a state religion. The best-known relic at Todaiji Temple is its Daibutsu, a colossal statue that, with 15 meters (49 feet) in height, is the world's largest gilded bronze Buddha.
http://web-japan.org/atlas/historical/his13.html |
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Todaiji Temple
The Emperor Shomu founded a state-established provincial temple Kokubunji in each province in the 13th year of Tenpyo (A.D. 741), and issued an Imperial edict for the dedication of the Great Buddha to Todaiji Temple. A continuous series of calamities and disturbances occurred in those days, and it took about 10 years to construct the Great Buddha. A grand Buddhist ceremony for consecrating the newly made image was held in the fourth year of Tenpyo Shoho (A.D. 752). The Great Buddha suffered various distubances and was sometimes set on fire. It was reconstructed on each occasion.
http://www.pref.nara.jp/nara/kaido/eg/ko_nara/spot/k20.htm |
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Todaiji Temple
The temple complex contains a great many cultural properties spanning the Nara Period (710-794) to the Kamakura Period (1192-1333) such as: the Nandaimon (great south gate-national treasure) which was reconstructed during the Kamakura Period; the Daibutsuden (great Buddha hall-national treasure) which contains the 16-meter high statue embodying the Buddha Virushana (Vairocana) as the principal image of the temple; the belfry (national treasure) ; the Sangatsudo (Third Month Hall),the temple's oldest building (national treasure) ; the Nigatsudo (Second Month Hall) where the rite known as Omizutori (literally" water drawing") is held every March.
http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/nara/nara7-e.html |
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Tôdai-ji Temple
In 1180, most of the temple structures were burned down by the troops of warlord Taira Shigehira (1156-1185), later to be reconstructed under the direction of a priest named Chôgen (1121-1206). However, the temple was again destroyed by fire in 1567 during the battle between the Miyoshi and Matsunaga clans. Most of the current temple buildings, including the Great Buddha Hall, were reconstructed in the Edo period (1615-1868).
http://www.narahaku.go.jp/around/todaiji_e.htm |
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