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The back of the pedestal has an image of location that is known to be the center of the universe. This location holds the heavens, the oceans and the earth apart from each other. [2] This place is known as Mount Sumeru. The right panel shows a picture of the Buddha in a previous life and the left panel shows the scene of "The Hungry Tigress ...
Hōryū-ji (Japanese: 法隆寺, Hepburn: Temple of the Flourishing Dharma) is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Built shortly after Buddhism was introduced to Japan, it is also one of the oldest Buddhist sites in the country.
There are 26 sites listed in Japan, with a further four sites on the tentative list. [3] Japan's first entries to the list took place in 1993, when four sites were inscribed. The most recent site, the Sado mine, was listed in 2024. Among the sites, 21 are listed for their cultural and five for their natural significance. [3]
Horyu-ji Ikaruga ( 斑鳩町 , Ikaruga-chō ) is a town in Ikoma District, Nara , Japan. As of 31 December 2024 [update] , the town had an estimated population of 28,036 in 12,292 households, and a population density of 2000 persons per km 2 . [ 1 ]
The precise date of the shrine is uncertain, but it is generally placed around the middle of the seventh century. [2] A terminus ante quem is provided by the first documentary evidence for its existence, an inventory in temple records dating to 747, which includes "two items taking the form of a palace building, one with a design of a Thousand Buddhas in repoussé metalwork" (宮殿像弐具 ...
Kongōbu-ji (金剛峯寺, Kongōbu-ji) Shingon Buddhist temple Kōya-chō, Ito-gun, Wakayama-ken Kōyasan: Jison-in (慈尊院, Jison-in) Shingon Buddhist temple Kudoyama-chō, Ito-gun, Wakayama-ken Kōyasan: Niukanshōfu Shrine (丹生官省符神社, Niukanshōfu-jinja) Shinto shrine
Chūgū-ji Hondō. Chūgū-ji (中宮寺) is a temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan, that was founded as a nunnery in the seventh century by Shōtoku Taishi. Located immediately to the northeast of Hōryū-ji, its statue of Miroku and Tenjukoku mandala are National Treasures.
The Japanese word for a Buddhist monastery is tera (寺) (kun reading), and the same kanji also has the pronunciation ji (on reading), so temple names frequently end in -dera or -ji. Another ending, -in (院), is normally used to refer to minor temples. Examples of temple names that have these suffixes are Kiyomizu-dera, Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in.