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Gallery: Kyoto - Nara - Todaiji Temple

Todaiji ("Great Eastern Temple") is one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples of Nara. The temple was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka in 784 in order to lower the temple's influence on government affairs.

Todaiji's main hall, the Daibutsuden (Big Buddha Hall) is the world's largest wooden building, despite the fact that the present reconstruction of 1692 is only two thirds of the original temple hall's size. The massive building houses one of Japan's largest bronze statues of Buddha (Daibutsu). The 15 meters tall, seated Buddha represents Vairocana and is flanked by two Bodhisattvas.
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Binzuru (Pindola Bharadvaja), one of the 16 ararats disciples of Buddha (wood, 18th c., Edo period), Todaiji Temple, Nara - 0264
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