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Kebara temple ruins (毛原廃寺跡, Kebara haiji ato) is an archeological site with the ruins of a Nara period Buddhist temple located in the Kebara neighborhood of the village of Yamazoe, Nara, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1926, with the area under protection expanded in 2021. [1]
Narita-san (成田山 "Narita mountain") Shinshō-ji (新勝寺 "New victory temple") is a Shingon Buddhist temple located in central Narita, Chiba, Japan.It was founded in 940 by Kanchō Daisōjō, a disciple of Kōbō Daishi.
The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897. [3] The definition and the criteria have changed since the inception of the term. The temple structures in this list were designated national treasures when the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties was implemented on June 9, 1951.
Tō-ji was founded in the early Heian period. [1] The temple dates from 796, two years after the capital moved to Heian-kyō.Together with its partner Sai-ji, and the temple Shingon-in (located in the Heian Palace), it was one of only three Buddhist temples allowed in the capital at the time and is the only of the three to survive to the present.
Kiyomizu-dera circa 1880 by Adolfo Farsari. The temple was established in 778, during the late Nara period, by Enchin Shonin, who was a priest from Nara (the capital of Japan from 710 to 784).
Tairyūji or Tairyū-ji (Tairyū Temple, Great Dragon Temple) (Japanese: 太龍寺 ) is a Koyasan Shingon temple in Anan city, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple # 21 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. The main image is of Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva.
Hōkō-ji (方広寺, Hōkō-ji) (or Great Buddha of Kyoto []) [clarification needed] is a temple in Kyoto, Japan, dating from the 16th century. Toyotomi Hideyoshi determined that the capital city should have a Daibutsu (Great Buddha of Kyoto) temple to surpass that of Nara.
Tenryū-ji (天龍寺), formally known as Tenryū Shiseizen-ji (天龍資聖禅寺), is the head temple of the Tenryū-ji branch of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, located in Susukinobaba-chō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple was founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first chief priest was ...