Kamakura Giant Buddha
Hello everyone! Today, I would like to introduce you to the "Bronze Seated Statue of Amitabha Buddha" from the Kamakura period in Japan, often referred to as the "Kamakura Great Buddha", located in the Kotoku-in Temple of the Pure Land Sect of The Great Mountain in Kamakura.
Kamakura Giant Buddha is one of the three major Buddha statues in Japan, 11.5 meters high, the main body is a wooden structure, the interior is a hollow structure, was built in 1238, after being blown down by a typhoon and destroyed, in 1253 recast bronze seated Buddha statue, enshrined in the Great Buddha Hall, in 1498, due to the inversion of the sea, the main hall was washed away, the Buddha statue has been open to worship, until now.
The interior of the Buddha statue is hollow and can be accessed from the bottom behind the Buddha statue.
After entering, it can be found that there are obvious traces of multiple repairs inside the Buddha statue.
To the left of the statue, there is a pair of eye-catching straw shoes, about a meter long, which are said to be made by children in Ibaraki Prefecture to offer offerings to the Buddha.
Lao She, a famous literary scholar on the mainland, once made a poem called "Kamakura Buddha":
After the Spring City Jade Flute urging, why did Citi Merchant Jia come?
Whoever advertises is three years old, the ancient Buddha is speechless and opens himself.
The wind of drinking dew and eating is not remembered, and the Vietnamese beacon fire is spring again.
There are many uneven things in the human world, and sweeping away the demons is victorious into Zen.
Ten solemn and hundred refinements, several dynasties of fire and tears into dust.
The east is rising in the east today, and the cherry blossoms have no owner.
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