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Amida-do Hall, Kiyomizu-dera
A Kiyomizu hall where Amida devotion still keeps the precinct broader than its most famous landmarks.
Amida-dō, Nishi Hongan-ji
The Amida hall of Nishi Hongan-ji, where Pure Land devotion still gives doctrinal center to the whole precinct.
Amidadō-mon, Nishi Hongan-ji
The gate to Nishi Hongan-ji's Amida hall, where approach still carries visitors into the doctrinal center of the precinct.
Anuradhapura
A sacred city where pilgrimage, stupas, monastery history, and the Bodhi tree tradition remain woven into everyday devotional life.
Belfry of East Precinct, Horyu-ji
An eastern Horyu-ji belfry where ritual sound keeps the memorial precinct vividly alive.
Belfry of Horyu-ji
A temple belfry that makes ritual time audible inside Horyu-ji's living precinct.
Beopjusa Temple
A Korean mountain monastery where large wooden halls, broad courts, and living Buddhist practice still work together as one precinct.
Bongjeongsa Temple
A Korean mountain monastery where wooden halls, quiet courts, and living Buddhist use still hold together as one temple world.
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
An early Buddhist temple landscape where Horyu-ji and Hokki-ji together preserve one of the clearest surviving material worlds of Buddhism's first centuries in Japan.
Bulguksa Temple
A Buddhist temple of terraces, bridges, pagodas, and halls arranged to give material form to a Buddhist ideal world.
Buseoksa Temple
A Korean mountain monastery where terraces, halls, and long views still shape the approach to an active Buddhist site.
Byodo-in
A Buddhist temple where pond, hall, and reflection create a sacred stillness that feels designed for contemplation.
Central Golden Hall, Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji's rebuilt central hall, where ritual center and recent reconstruction now coincide.
Chōzuya, Nishi Hongan-ji
Nishi Hongan-ji's handwashing pavilion, where purification still prepares the body for entry into the sacred court.
Chuson-ji
A Buddhist temple whose wooded hillside approach and famous golden hall still make Pure Land ideas feel unusually tangible.
Covered Corridor, Horyu-ji
A roofed corridor at Horyu-ji that turns the Western Precinct into one enclosed sacred court.
Daeheungsa Temple
A Korean mountain monastery where deep precincts, halls, and a wooded valley setting still support living Buddhist practice.
Dambulla Cave Temple
A living Buddhist cave-shrine complex where ritual movement is shaped by painting, sculpture, and the interior sequence of the caves.
Denpodo, Horyu-ji
A quieter Eastern Precinct hall that keeps Horyu-ji's sacred eastern zone broader than Yumedono alone.
East Gate, Horyu-ji
A gate at Horyu-ji where passage between the Western and Eastern precincts becomes a sacred transition.