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English: Plan of Todaiji. Source : Yutaka Mino, John M. Rosenfield, William H. Coaldrake, Samuel C. Morse et Christine M. E. Guth, The Great Eastern Temple: treasures of Japanese Buddhist art from Tōdai-ji, The Art Institute of Chicago et Indiana University Press, 1986, 180 p.
Temple bell 梵鐘 bonshō [95] 752: NT: Octagonal gilt bronze lantern 金銅八角燈籠 kondō hakkaku tōrō [27] [96] Nara period: located in front of the Daibutsuden: NT: Box with flower and bird design 花鳥彩絵油色箱 kachō saieyushokubako [97] Nara period: NT: Deer hide with grape arabesque pattern 葡萄唐草文染韋 budō ...
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. Though it was originally founded in the year 738 CE ...
Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...
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Dedicatory records of Tōdai-ji temple, 756 The construction of the Tōdai-ji Buddhist temple complex was ordained by Emperor Shōmu as part of a national project of Buddhist temple construction. During the Tempyō period, the years during which Emperor Shōmu reigned, multiple disasters struck Japan as well as political uproar and epidemics.
The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, CA, on Jan. 7, 2025. A ferocious wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb devoured buildings and sparked panicked evacuations ...
' 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 Buddha Hall, on the hillside of Mount Wakakusa. It includes several other buildings in addition to the specific hall named Nigatsu-dō, thus comprising its own sub-complex within Tōdai-ji.