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great doors of Todai-ji Temple
a worshipper dwarfed by the giant doors of the Todai-ji Temple.
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WOMEN MONKS.jpg
These must be young women monks, leaving the entrance to Todai-ji. They are the only women in robes I...
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Todai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan
This picture of children was my first glimpse of a gigantic, dark temple looming in the background.
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Todai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan
Diabutsu
The Nara temple houses this, the largest Buddha in Japan,, Diabutsu, Great Buddha. The monks below give...
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prayers, Diabutsu, Great Buddha, Nara
The Nara temple houses this, the largest Buddha in Japan Diabutsu, Great Buddha. The monks below give some sense of the scale of the sculptural icon.
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monks leaving prayers
the monks have finished morning prayers and are leaving the temple, to their monastery quarters nearby. Nara, Japan
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Temple documents desk
These men sit by the door and provide prayer objects, documents, and stamps for the temple visitors and pilgrims, for a small fee.
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religious pilgrim
I encountered this pilgrim on the street in Koyasan, but one can see them gathered at many temples...
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Old Tokaido Highway, Hakone, Japan.
Old Tokaido Highway, a wide walk path traveled in old times between Tokyo and Kyoto. The cedar trees...
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inside the gate
The monk Santoka would come to a monastery, with a gate like this one.
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