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    Hōryū-ji (Japanese: 法隆寺, lit. 'Temple of the Flourishing Dharma') is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in...
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    within it. The arson was taken as an incident as serious as the fire in Hōryū-ji in 1949 by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture. Hayashi...
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    World Heritage Site Hōryū-ji is located, was a center for early Japanese Buddhism, and the temples of Hokki-ji, Hōrin-ji and Chūgū-ji were founded in the...
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    Wakakusa-dera, which had burnt down in 670, was also rebuilt at this time as Hōryū-ji, showing the same stylistic influences. Following Baekje's ruin in 660...
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     135 金堂 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2009-11-23. 五重塔 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original...
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    buildings at Hōryū-ji, built in the seventh century, show some influence from Chinese and west Asian countries. For instance, the pillars at Hōryū-ji are similar...
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    immediately to the northeast of Hōryū-ji, its statue of Miroku and Tenjukoku mandala are National Treasures. Chūgū-ji is one of three nunneries in Yamato...
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    to Hōryū-ji and Hokki-ji, ancient Buddhist temples collectively inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Other ancient temples include Hōrin-ji, also...
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    Archived December 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (UNESCO) Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara (UNESCO) Sacred Sites...
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    Heritage Site Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area includes a variety of buildings found in Hōryū-ji and Hokki-ji in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. These...
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    Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area. The foundation of this temple is uncertain, as there are no records in the Nihon Shoki or Hōryū-ji Garan Engi and Ruki...
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    promoted Buddhism and ordered the construction of Shitennō-ji in Osaka (593) and Hōryū-ji near his palace in Ikaruga (completed in 603). During the ancient...
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    Middle East, East Africa, India, and South East Asia. The main compound of Hōryū-ji temple in Nara is built during the Asuka period. Timgad, Algeria, is destroyed...
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    was originally built by people from the Three Kingdoms of Korea, like Hōryū-ji. A Silla person was in charge of the overall construction, and the bronze...
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    statue in the Hōryū-ji Temple. This Chinese text was written in Shakyōtai (写経体) style, prominent in the Chinese Six Dynasties period. The Hōryū-ji Temple also...
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    Yamada-den Amida Triad (category Hōryū-ji)
    (Mahasthamaprapta). Once a part of Hōryū-ji, it is currently owned by the Tokyo National Museum as part of the Hōryū-ji Treasure Gallery. It is designated...
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    trend: they are in chronological order Asuka-dera, Shitennō-ji, Hōryū-ji, and Yakushi-ji. In the first, the pagoda was at the very center of the garan...
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    been linked with Hōryū-ji, a temple in Yamato Province, and numerous other temples in the Kansai region. Documentation at Hōryū-ji claims that Suiko...
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  • Hōryū-ji Himeji Yakushima Shirakami-Sanchi Kyoto Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama Hiroshima Peace Memorial Itsukushima Shrine Nara Nikkō Ryukyu Kii Mountain Range...
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    Fujiwara-kyō palace ruins. The Kibi-ike temple ruins had a layout patterned on Hōryū-ji, with a main hall to the east and a pagoda to the west, and the style and...
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    Kōzan-ji in Shimonoseki's Butsuden Motoyama-ji's chinjū-dō Kōmyō-ji's chinjusha Chūmon at Hōryū-ji Myōshin-ji's hattō Tōdai-ji's Hokke-dō Jingo-ji's honbō...
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    and the Tenpyō period, 710–784. Pagoda and Kondō at Hōryū-ji, 8th century Hokkedō at Tōdai-ji, 8th century The earliest Japanese sculptures of the Buddha...
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    Shimazu Family L. Walker, 2002 – Foreign Affairs and Frontiers Hōryū-ji, Kondō Hōryū-ji, Gojyūnotō Cooper, page 160: "I have received information that...
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  • trend: they are in chronological order Asuka-dera, Shitennō-ji, Hōryū-ji, and Yakushi-ji. In the first, the pagoda was at the very center of the garan...
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    Kōzan-ji's Butsuden in Shimonoseki Motoyama-ji's chinjū-dō Chōhō-ji's chinjū-dō Chūmon at Hōryū-ji Kennin-ji's hattō Tōdai-ji's Hokke-dō Jingo-ji's honbō...
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    nine-story pagoda on Hwangnyongsa, Gyeongju, Korea, built in 645 Pagoda at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga, Nara, Japan, built in the 7th century, one of the oldest wooden...
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    Tachibana Shrine (category Hōryū-ji)
    referred to as the Lady Tachibana Shrine, is a miniature shrine owned by the Hōryū-ji temple complex of Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its precise date of construction...
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    Kon-dō and pagoda at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga, Nara Built in 7th century Pagoda at Hokki-ji, Ikaruga, Nara Built in 706 Pagoda at Yakushi-ji, Nara, Nara Originally...
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    Taizong to translate the Heart Sutra." A palm-leaf manuscript found at the Hōryū-ji Temple is the earliest undated extant Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart...
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    sculptures of this period are the Shō Kannon at Yakushi-ji and the Yumechigai Kannon at Hōryū-ji. During the Nara period, from 710 to 794, the government...
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