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    Tōdai-ji (東大寺, Todaiji temple, "Eastern Great Temple") is a Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in the...
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    origin of Tōdai-ji's Shōsō-in repository itself dates back to 756, when Empress Kōmyō dedicated over 600 items to the Great Buddha at Tōdai-ji to express...
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    shrines, and ruins, specifically Tōdai-ji, Saidai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Kasuga Shrine, Gangō-ji, Yakushi-ji, Tōshōdai-ji, and the Heijō Palace, together with...
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    The Tōdai-ji Hachiman (Japanese:木造僧形八幡神坐像, Romaji: Mokuzō Sōgyō Hachimanjin Zazō) is a syncretic Shinto-Buddhist sculpture of the kami Hachiman carved...
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    Buddha), later to be completed and placed in Tōdai-ji, Nara. 752: The Great Buddha (Daibutsu) at Tōdai-ji is completed. 759: The poetic anthology Man'yōshū...
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    world Hōryū-ji Golden Hall, the oldest wooden structure in the world Daibutsu at Tōdai-ji, the largest bronze statue in the world Tōdai-ji Main Hall, until...
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    Prefecture (Important Cultural Property). This example at Tōdai-ji is generally dated to the 750s. At Tōdai-ji today, a temporary flower hall (花御堂, hanamidō) is...
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    guardians in Kaidanin, a division of Tōdai-ji temple, are clay statues. A national official factory, Zō Tōdai-ji shi ("Tōdai-ji Temple construction office"),...
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    to the great temple of Tōdai-ji in Nara. After several centuries, the estate came under control of the Zen temple of Tenryū-ji in Kyoto. The ruins of...
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    is that at Asuka-dera (609) and the best-known is that at Tōdai-ji in Nara (752). Tōdai-ji's daibutsu is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic...
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    the eyes ceremony of the Great Buddha statue at Tōdai-ji in 751. He was first a bettō monk at Tōdai-ji, but was later promoted to be a zōshō (僧正) high...
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    Hachiman as the Emperor Ojin appeared in the "Digest Record of Todai-ji Temple (東大寺要録 Tōdai-ji Yoroku)" and "Records of the Age of the Gods from the Sumiyoshi...
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    about 502 hectares (1,240 acres), the area including the grounds of Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Kasuga Grand Shrine and Nara National Museum, which are either on...
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    his father to depress the power of various parties, mainly Kōfuku-ji and Tōdai-ji, who were backing up an opposition group headed by Prince Mochihito...
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    pieces by his father, Kōkei. However, the sculptures he produced for the Tōdai-ji in Nara show a flair for realism different from anything Japan had seen...
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    Japan. The temple was first established in AD 765 as a counterpart to Tōdai-ji and it is the main temple of the Shingon Risshu (真言律宗) sect of Buddhism...
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  • Estonian Nyingma. Retrieved 24 July 2021. Daian-ji, Japan (in Japanese) Ryōsen-ji, Japan (English summary) Tōdai-ji, Japan[permanent dead link] (in Japanese)...
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    Tōfuku-ji (東福寺) is a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama-ku in Kyoto, Japan. Tōfuku-ji takes its name from two temples in Nara, Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji. It is...
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    Shigehira fought in the Siege of Nara, where he burned the monks of the Tōdai-ji monastery. He married Fujiwara no Hoshi (藤原輔子), the second daughter of...
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    to the Tōhoku region to obtain gold. Tōdai-ji was reconstructed in 1185. The post of Daikanjinshoku of Tōdai-ji continued to Eisai (2nd, 1141–1215), Gyoyu...
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    build the Daibutsu (Great Buddha), later to be completed and placed in Tōdai-ji, Nara. 743 (Tenpyō 15): The law of Perpetual Ownership of Cultivated Lands...
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  • bronze sheets are much lighter compared to that of the Great Buddha at Tōdai-ji temple in Nara, since the one at Ushiku applies a steel frame to support...
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    with each other. Furthermore, temples like Tōdai-ji also included shrines for the worship of kami (in Tōdai-ji's case, it was the kami Shukongōjin that was...
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    Kōtoku-in (redirect from Shōjōsen-ji)
    Tan Buddha – located in Hong Kong, world's tallest seated Buddha statue Tōdai-ji – temple in Nara, home to largest bronze Buddha statue in Japan Ushiku...
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    Buddha of Tōdai-ji in Nara Fukū-kensaku Kannon of Hokke-do. Tōdai-ji in Nara Shukongoshin. Tōdai-ji in Nara Golden Hall of Tōshōdai-ji in Nara Lecture...
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    including the Kōfuku-ji and Tōdai-ji. Only the Shōsōin survived. The Heike Monogatari laments the destruction of the Tōdai-ji's Daibutsu (Great Buddha...
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  • (Moscow, Russia) Tōdai-ji Temple Bell (Nara, Japan) Yongle Bell (Beijing, China) Tharrawaddy Min Bell (Yangon, Myanmar) Shitennō-ji Temple Bell (Osaka...
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  • sculpts Mahamayuri in Kimpusen-ji, an Important Cultural Property of Japan. 1201: Kaikei sculpts Hachiman in Tōdai-ji, a National Treasure of Japan 1203:...
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    government's promotion of Buddhism, including the construction of the temple Tōdai-ji in 752. The funds to build this temple were raised in part by the influential...
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     'The Hall of the Second Month') is one of the important structures of Tōdai-ji, a temple in Nara, Japan. Nigatsu-dō is located to the east of the Great...
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