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    Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) is one of the most famous imperial and ancient Buddhist temples in Japan, and was once one of the Seven Great Temples of Nanto, located...
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    Shin-Yakushi-ji (新薬師寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Kegon sect in Nara, Japan. It was founded in 747 by Empress Kōmyō. Initially a large complete Shichidō...
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    Byakugō-ji Daian-ji Enjō-ji Enshō-ji Futai-ji Gangō-ji Hannya-ji Hokke-ji Kikō-ji Kōfuku-ji Ryōsen-ji Saidai-ji Shin-Yakushi-ji Shōryaku-ji Tōdai-ji, including...
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    Shimotsuke Yakushi-ji (下野薬師寺) was a Buddhist temple located in what is now the city of Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture, in northern Kantō region of Japan...
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    counterparts in Hōryū-ji. A noteworthy Yakushi Triad (薬師三尊, Yakushi sanzon) consists of three sculptures representing the Yakushi Buddha and two bodhisattvas...
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    Bhaisajyaguru (redirect from Yakushi)
    to strengthen their merits, they will be able to achieve their wishes. Yakushi-ji, 8th century, Japan Bhaiṣajyaguru statue in a temple in Northern Vietnam...
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    and restoration of the Buddhist temple buildings at Hōryū-ji, and the restoration of Yakushi-ji (both designated UNESCO World Heritage sites), and numerous...
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    Designated a National Treasure of Japan, the Yakushi Nyorai serves as the principal figure of worship at Jingo-ji, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto. It is deemed a significant...
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    Buddhist priest was put in charge of Tō-ji in 823 by order of Emperor Saga. The temple's principal image is of Yakushi Nyorai, the Medicine Buddha. Many religious...
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  • the town of Ikaruga, Nara) Kōfuku-ji (興福寺) Saidai-ji (西大寺) Tōdai-ji (東大寺) Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) Sometimes the temples were called "the fifteen great temples...
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  • 5-7-5-7-7-7; named for the poems inscribed on the Buddha's footprints at Yakushi-ji in Nara), four kanshi (Chinese poems), and 22 Chinese prose passages....
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    position after the death of Empress Shōtoku and was sent to Shimotsuke Yakushi-ji. Dōkyō was born in Kawachi Province. His family, the Yuge no Muraji, were...
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    of the Daikandai-ji (大官大寺), as it was then known, seven hundred metres to the south of Mount Kagu. Like the Yakushi-ji, and Gangō-ji, the temple relocated...
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    at Shōjō-ji is a statue of Yakushi Nyorai, flanked by Nikko Bosatsu and Gakko Bosatsu. The main Yakushi Nyorai image remains in the Yakushi-do, but the...
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    Takeda clan, the "Rikei-ni no Ki", at this temple. The main hall at Daizen-ji Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) was built in the Kamakura period by the Shikken Hōjō Sadatoki...
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    first temple is believed to have been completed by 607. Hōryū-ji was dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing and in honor of the prince's father...
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    and the Kasugayama Primeval Forest as Special Natural Monument. Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji and the Kasugayama Primeval Forest overlap with Nara Park, a park designated...
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    period image that is currently held by Yakushi-ji (also classified as a National Treasure). Whereas the Yakushi-ji Hachiman is a triad image, accompanied...
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    his father to depress the power of various parties, mainly Kōfuku-ji and Tōdai-ji, who were backing up an opposition group headed by Prince Mochihito...
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    Ambassadors of Tane no kuni were received in the Japanese court. 680 (Tenmu 8): Yakushi-ji was founded in the Hakuhō period. Tenmu reigned from this capital until...
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    Uryōzan Gakuen-ji (浮浪山 鰐淵寺). It belongs to the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism, and its honzon is a statue of Senjū Kannon and Yakushi Nyōrai. Its ground...
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    include Nara Park near the five-storied pagoda of Kōfuku-ji, Oike pond near Yakushi-ji, and Heijō Palace. Overlooking Nara Night view of Nara Viewed from Heijō...
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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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    Tōfuku-ji's hon-dō Engyō-ji's jiki-dō Yakushi-ji's kairō Tōfuku-ji's kaisan-dō Hōgon-ji's karamon Shitennō-ji's karesansui A katōmado Tōfuku-ji's sanmon...
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    Byōdō-ji (平等寺) is a Buddhist temple in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1003, and it is dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai. The temple...
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    modernism Buddhist philosophy Greater India History of Buddhism Ichibata Yakushi Kyodan Kanjin Nara National Museum Religion in Japan Shinbutsu kakuri Katsumi...
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    (in Japanese). Hōryū-ji. Archived from the original on 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2009-11-23. 東院堂 [Tōindō] (in Japanese). Yakushi-ji. Archived from the original...
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    Cultural Properties on the grounds of Todai-ji, Kofuku-ji, Kasuga Grand Shrine, Shōsōin, Shin-Yakushi-ji, Gangō-ji, and others. There are 374 arts and crafts...
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    since the Kofun period. A large Buddhist temple complex, the Shimotsuke Yakushi-ji, located in what is now the city of Tochigi, dates from the Nara period...
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  • Kanjizai-ji Eihei-ji Nanzoin Shōfuku-ji Jōten-ji Enichi-ji Eihō-ji Shōgen-ji Shōhō-ji Ankoku-ji Buttsū-ji Myōō-in Antai-ji Chōkō-ji Engyō-ji Hōrin-ji Hōun-ji Ichijō-ji...
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