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    Hōryū-ji (Japanese: 法隆寺, Hepburn: Temple of the Flourishing Dharma) is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga...
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    Heritage Site Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area includes a variety of buildings found in Hōryū-ji and Hokki-ji in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. These...
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    Wakakusa-dera, which had burnt down in 670, was also rebuilt at this time as Hōryū-ji, showing the same stylistic influences. Following Baekje's ruin in 660...
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    registered together with Hōryū-ji as an UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area. Hokki-ji is located in Ikaruga...
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    trend: they are in chronological order Asuka-dera, Shitennō-ji, Hōryū-ji, and Yakushi-ji. In the first, the pagoda was at the very center of the garan...
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    promoted Buddhism and ordered the construction of Shitennō-ji in Osaka (593) and Hōryū-ji near his palace in Ikaruga (completed in 603). During the ancient...
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    buildings at Hōryū-ji, built in the seventh century, show some influence from Chinese and west Asian countries. For instance, the pillars at Hōryū-ji are similar...
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    been linked with Hōryū-ji, a temple in Yamato Province, and numerous other temples in the Kansai region. Documentation at Hōryū-ji claims that Suiko...
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    to Hōryū-ji and Hokki-ji, ancient Buddhist temples collectively inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Other ancient temples include Hōrin-ji, also...
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    Archived December 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (UNESCO) Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara (UNESCO) Sacred Sites...
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    before Xuanzang passed away.: 12, 17  A palm-leaf manuscript found at the Hōryū-ji Temple is the earliest undated extant Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart...
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     135 金堂 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2009-11-23. 五重塔 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original...
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    statue in the Hōryū-ji Temple. This Chinese text was written in Shakyōtai (写経体) style, prominent in the Chinese Six Dynasties period. The Hōryū-ji Temple also...
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    length. The Tamamushi Shrine, an Asuka Period miniature shrine located at Hōryū-ji Temple, Nara prefecture, was decorated with lacquer and oil painting on...
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    and the Tenpyō period, 710–784. Pagoda and Kondō at Hōryū-ji, 8th century Hokkedō at Tōdai-ji, 8th century The earliest Japanese sculptures of the Buddha...
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    nine-story pagoda on Hwangnyongsa, Gyeongju, Korea, built in 645 Pagoda at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga, Nara, Japan, built in the 7th century, one of the oldest wooden...
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    Shimazu Family L. Walker, 2002 – Foreign Affairs and Frontiers Hōryū-ji, Kondō Hōryū-ji, Gojyūnotō Cooper, page 160: "I have received information that...
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  • Daian-ji (大安寺) Gangō-ji (元興寺) Hōryū-ji (法隆寺) (located close to the border of modern Nara city, in the town of Ikaruga, Nara) Kōfuku-ji (興福寺) Saidai-ji (西大寺)...
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    Middle East, East Africa, India, and South East Asia. The main compound of Hōryū-ji temple in Nara is built during the Asuka period. Timgad, Algeria, is destroyed...
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    the world Hōryū-ji Golden Hall, the oldest wooden structure in the world Daibutsu at Tōdai-ji, the largest bronze statue in the world Tōdai-ji Main Hall...
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  • Patrimony. University of Napoli. ISSN 1827-8868 "Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area, UNESCO World Heritage". Retrieved 2016-10-05. Historic England. "Details...
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    Kon-dō and pagoda at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga, Nara Built in 7th century Pagoda at Hokki-ji, Ikaruga, Nara Built in 706 Pagoda at Yakushi-ji, Nara, Nara Originally...
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    earliest extant kyōzō is at Hōryū-ji, and it is a two-storied structure. An example of one-storied kyōzō is at Tōshōdai-ji in Nara. A kyōzō's usual size...
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  • Hōryū-ji Himeji Yakushima Shirakami-Sanchi Kyoto Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama Hiroshima Peace Memorial Itsukushima Shrine Nara Nikkō Ryukyu Kii Mountain Range...
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     135 金堂 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2009-11-23. 五重塔 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original...
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    Siddham script, originally held at Hōryū-ji Temple, Japan; now located in the Tokyo National Museum at the Gallery of Hōryūji Treasure. The original copy may...
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    Shōtoku, "Yumedono" (A hall associated with Prince Shōtoku in Hōryū-ji Temple) Hōryū-ji Temple February 25, 1946 July 5, 1956 For table standards, see...
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  • Prefecture. Those at Tōdai-ji form part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara; that at Hōryū-ji is part of the World Heritage...
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    construction of the "Seven Great Temples": Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Gangō-ji, Daian-ji, Yakushi-ji, Saidai-ji, and Hōryū-ji. It has long been believed that the temple...
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    "Kondō" (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2009-11-23. 五重塔 (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original...
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