Todaiji Temple | Nara's Great Eastern Temple | One of Japan’s most significant Temples

Описание: 0:00 Japan Adventure Series: Part Forty-Six—Todai-ji Temple
0:10 Todaiji Namdaimon (Nandaimon) Gate: The Grand South Gate
0:38 Todaiji Chumon (Middle) Gate and Todaiji Temple Grounds
1:30 Todaiji Temple Main Shine and Daibatsu Den (Big Buddha Hall)
2:05 The 15 meters tall, seated Buddha, and the two Bodhisattvas
2:45 Todaiji Temple is home to numerous national treasures and cultural assets
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Todaiji, "the Great Eastern Temple", is one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara.

Along the approach to Todaiji stands the Nandaimon Gate, a large wooden gate watched over by two fierce looking statues. Representing the Nio Guardian Kings, the statues are designated national treasures together with the gate itself. Temple visitors will also encounter some deer from the adjacent Nara Park, begging for shika senbei, special crackers for deer that are sold for around 200 yen.

Todaiji's grounds are spacious and cover most of northern Nara Park, including a number of smaller temple halls and sites of interest.

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 away from Nara in 784 in order to lower the temple's influence on government affairs.

Todaiji's main hall, the Daibutsuden (Big Buddha Hall), holds the record as 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.

It took a total of roughly 2.6 million people to come together and create the Great Buddha statue that now sits in Todaiji.

Aside from the Great Buddha, Todaiji Temple is home to numerous national treasures and cultural assets, and so the temple itself was registered as a Historic Monument of Ancient Nara by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1998.

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