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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 city of Nara, Japan. The construction of the temple was an attempt to imitate Chinese temples from the much-admired Tang dynasty .
A Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, Tōdai-ji's Daibutsuden (大仏殿, Great Buddha Hall) houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha, Vairocana, known in Japanese as Daibutsu (大仏). The current Daibutsuden was built in 1709, and was the world's largest wooden building until 1998.
The 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 her love for her lost husband, Emperor Shōmu, who died 49 days earlier. [4] Her donation was made over five times across several years, then stored at the Shōsō-in.
Tōshōdai-ji (唐招提寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Risshū sect in the city of Nara, in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Classic Golden Hall, also known as the kondō , has a single story, hipped tiled roof with a seven bay wide facade.
The Emperor Shōmu ordered the construction of Tōdai-ji Temple (largest wooden building in the world) and the world's largest bronze Buddha statue. [16] The temples of Nara, known collectively as the Nanto Shichi Daiji , remained spiritually significant even beyond the move of the political capital to Heian-kyō in 794, thus giving Nara a ...
Kaikei's sculpture differs from an older Heian period image that is currently held by Yakushi-ji (also classified as a National Treasure). Whereas the Yakushi-ji Hachiman is a triad image, accompanied by a sculpture of Nakatsuhime and Empress Jingū (as Hachiman is the deification of Emperor Ōjin), Kaikei's sculpture is a solitary image of Hachiman as a monk.
Tōdai-ji Shingon'in shōrō [24] 1649 & following: Prefectural: Shingon'in south gate 東大寺真言院南門 Tōdai-ji Shingon'in nanmon [24] 1649 & following: Prefectural: Kaidan'in kaidandō 東大寺戒壇院戒壇堂 Tōdai-ji Nigatsudō yuya [24] 1733: Prefectural: Nigatsudō bath house 東大寺二月堂湯屋 Tōdai-ji Nigatsudō yuya ...
Kaidan-in (戒壇院) is a Rinzai temple in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was founded by Ganjin in 761. Together with Tōdai-ji in Nara and Yakushi-ji in Tochigi Prefecture , it was one of Japan's three official ordination halls during the Nara period .