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anhminh | profile | all galleries >> Gallery: Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, China (Hong Kong, Canton, Macau), Indonesia, Japan >> Gallery: Japan >> Gallery: Japan - Kyoto >> gallery: Kyoto - Sanju Sangen Do tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

gallery: Kyoto - Sanju Sangen Do

Sanjusangendo is the popular name for Rengeo-in, a temple in eastern Kyoto which is famous for its 1001 statues of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. The temple was founded in 1164 and rebuilt a century later after the original structure had been destroyed in a fire.

The temple hall is with 120 meters Japan's longest wooden structure. The name Sanjusangendo (33 intervals) derives from the number of intervals between the building's support columns, a traditional method of measuring the size of a building. In the center of the main hall sits a large, wooden statue of a 1000-armed Kannon (Senju Kannon) that is flanked on each side by 500 statues of human sized 1000-armed Kannon (built in the 12th and 13th centuries) standing in ten rows (unfortunately photography is not allowed inside the building).
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