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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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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Shōsōin (redirect from Shōsō-in (Tōdai-ji))
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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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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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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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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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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