Todai-ji Temple is my fave fave fave so far!!!!!!!!!!

Todaiji Temple is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan is largest wooden building in the world. It houses Japan's largest Buddha statue.


Tōdai-ji (東大寺), the Eastern Great Temple, it houses a giant statue of the Buddha Vairocana (Jp. Dainichi), known in Japanese simply as the Daibutsu (大仏, "great Buddha"). The temple also serves as the Japanese headquarters of the Kegon school of Buddhism. Todaiji Temple is a classic Japanese Temple.

The size of the Buddha
Total height : 30 meters
Sitting height : 14.98 meters
Face : 5.33 meters
Eyes : 1.02 meters
Nose : 0.5 meter
Ears : 2.54 meters
Weight : 500 metric tonnes
The Buddha is made of gold (440 kg) and copper (499 Mg). The Buddha has special hair, like a spiral perm. In total, the hair consists of 966 balls whose diameter are 18 cm and whose height are 30 cm each.

see http://www.taleofgenji.org/todaiji.html

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