薬師寺。1300年を耐えた建物と、数々の戦乱と略奪で焼き払われた建物と。時を超えた仏像の表情は超然としていて、「時間などどうでも良い」と言っているようだった。 . Yakushiji Temple, a building that has endured 1,300 years, and another that has been burned down in numerous wars and lootings. The timeless Buddha images looked so majestic that they seemed to be saying, "Time is not important.” #薬師寺 #奈良 #temple #yakushiji https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZrr4EPG8n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
One of the few traditions Naoto still keeps after her parents died is seeing the first sunrise of the new year. As a kid, she had a hard time staying up, but she was determined to stay awake to see it, then visit a temple or a shrine, also known as hatsumode.
Of course, being able to hike to a place to see the sunrise without light pollution interfering isn’t something she can do every year, nor is magically being able to finish cases in time to spend it with her grandfather or Yakushiji, but she tries.
In the architecture of this 8th century Japanese Pagoda there are several relationships of the Golden Ratio (Phi). This temple was designed and built carefully so that every detail corresponds to the Golden Ratio of Nature, thus displaying a design aligned with the fractal harmony of the Universe. It is no accident that her beauty is often called "frozen music."
"The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion." – Plato
✧ Yakushiji Pagoda, Japan
Image from the book "The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture", by György Doczi
Today on the new episode of 1 Oku 3000 Mannin No SHOW Channel.
☑️Adult School field trip to Naru🦌
☑️field trip to Kanto SP ━━✨
Sakurai and Hatori, Kotoge and Yoshimura have travelled to Naru!
The show will be held at the Nara National Museum in Nara, Japan.
The director of Todaiji Shrine, who is having a bad year, is very happy to see everyone.
Praying for safety, this year is not a good year 😆.
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Also see info on places to walk in Kanto 🚗.
Sakurai and Hatori, Kotoge and Yoshimura.A tour of Todaiji temple, Yakushiji temple and Kofukuji temple! The historical anecdotes that pop up one after another are very fascinating 🤩.
The four of them took a memorable photo in the mood of a school field trip. What did they think of when they saw the photos 🤣? Sakurai talks about the memories of the school field trip 🤗.
The programme airs on Saturdays at 21 p.m. Japan time and 13 p.m. European time. Don't miss it!
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The Buddha Of The Jasmine Garden by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)
With the Music / Sutra : Heart Sutra × Ikkyu-ji Temple,Kyoto / Kanho Yakushiji【Japanese Buddhist Monk music】
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While the jasmine flower is not as commonly discussed in Buddhist symbolism as other flowers like the lotus,
symbolizes however purity of the mind and spiritual awakening.
Its delicate beauty and fragrance are…
Today, we took a train to Nara city. Nara is a treasure house of ancient history and culture set in a beautiful natural environment. We planned to take a long circle walk through the Park and Woods past numerous temples and shines.
Before, we got out of the station, we met a couple of Japanese gentleman that belonged to the YMCA with very good English. One of them volunteered to show us around. Are we lucky or what! Simon was cautiously skeptical, but in the end this was a legitimate offer.
We walked through a narrow street that was centre of calligraphy with shops full of supplies.
We walked around the pond to view the five story pagoda from a distance. It was under repair and closed to public, so we couldn’t go inside, but the outside was beautiful. Then we went to the three story pagoda. This pagoda was burned three times and rebuilt In the eighth century. He explain to us how it was built and could survive earthquakes and pretty much anything except fire. The most important part of the pagoda was a metal standard on the top centre so everyone could see it from the distance.
Then we walked through the park to Todaiji temple. In the park, deer were abundant and protected as the messengers of gods. They would come close for food and bow Their heads! At the ancient time, there were white deer living in this area. People would worship them, give them food, and bow at the deer because they were god’s messengers. So now these deer adopted the behaviour, and bow so food will be given to them. Fascinating!
Todaiji temple was famous for housing a massive statue of the Buddha and was the largest and oldest wooden structure in the world.
Then we walked by great bell to Tamukeyama hachimangu shrine. The beauty of the building, with a huge balcony and adorned with lots of variously shaped hanging lanterns, made this shrine different than all the others.
The next stop was Kasuga talsha shrine. The path to this shrine was lined with 2000 stone lanterns, many draped in moss, and the eaves of the shrine itself was decorated with a thousand hanging bronze lanterns. It was very impressive scenery. Everything was in harmony with the natural surrounding environment, as is the basis of Shinto religion. Incredible!
One day a year all of the lanterns are lit to celebrate the shrine’s anniversary.
After lunch, we visited Shin-yakushiji temple that was built for the empress to pray daily for her husband’s recovery. We had to take a local bus past the imperial palace to Toshodaiji temple and Yakushiji temple. At this point, after walking for hours, we were tired and templed out. We took the train back to Kyoto, and we were in bed by 7 PM.