Contemplating…
Location
Among the world’s oldest surviving wooden temple buildings, founded in the Asuka period.
UNESCO site preserving the earliest layer of Japanese Buddhist architecture and iconography.
Pilgrimage circuits that include this place.
Mahayana
Asuka–Nara foundations of Japanese Buddhism — Hōryū-ji, Tōdai-ji, Byōdō-in, and Mount Hiei.
East Asia
