Add to ORKGIn the Nara Period, Empress Regnant Shotoku (r. 765-770) commissioned one million miniature stupas to be constructed and distributed to various Buddhist temples. Currently, only stupas from the Horyuji Temple are still extant. A number of these stupas, known as Hyakumanto ("one million stupas"), bear inscriptions in ink containing the dates of manufacture and names of artisans and workshops of individual objects. Through the study of these inscriptions, we can come to a more detailed understanding of questions such as how the Hyakumanto were produced
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Photo showing the Five-tiered Pagoda (Go-ju-no-to) at the Hōryūji Buddhist temple and monastery co...
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The Tōdaiji is the greatest monument of the Nara Period built in the middle of the eighth century. T...
Of numerous stone Buddhist images existing in Japan, the only example known heretofore dating back t...
Among the Japanese Buddhist images of the seventh and eighth centuries, there are many small gilt br...
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Among the sculptures of the Nara Period. inscribed examples are rare. The group of images of the Twe...
P(論文)This is a study of mandalas unique to Esoteric Buddhism and the influence they had on religious...
The stupas at Sanchi seem to have been built first in the time of Asoka, chiefly to house the relics...
Photo showing the Five-tiered Pagoda (Go-ju-no-to) at the Hōryūji Buddhist temple and monastery co...
Both of the Kyōōgokokuji (Tōji) and the Enryakuji (Monastery of Mt. Hiei) were founded at the beginn...
The Asukadera was founded in the first year of Emperor Sushun (588) by SOGA no Umako and a Buddha ha...
The object of the present article is to point out the existence of a group of twelve «miniature» vot...
From around the seventh century, that is about one century after Buddhism was introduced into Japan,...
The stele of offering Tripitaka at Munsusa(文殊寺藏經碑) was made to record that Taiding Huanghou(泰定皇后), E...
The wooden statue of Bhaiṣajyaguru owned by the Kōdenji, Kyoto, was introduced to the public in 1973...
The Tōdaiji is the greatest monument of the Nara Period built in the middle of the eighth century. T...
Of numerous stone Buddhist images existing in Japan, the only example known heretofore dating back t...
Among the Japanese Buddhist images of the seventh and eighth centuries, there are many small gilt br...
The beginning of the construction of Japan’s first large-scale Buddhist temple, Asukadera 飛鳥寺, in 58...
Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the Japanese government closed itsborders to the outside world ...
Among the sculptures of the Nara Period. inscribed examples are rare. The group of images of the Twe...
P(論文)This is a study of mandalas unique to Esoteric Buddhism and the influence they had on religious...
The stupas at Sanchi seem to have been built first in the time of Asoka, chiefly to house the relics...
Photo showing the Five-tiered Pagoda (Go-ju-no-to) at the Hōryūji Buddhist temple and monastery co...
Both of the Kyōōgokokuji (Tōji) and the Enryakuji (Monastery of Mt. Hiei) were founded at the beginn...