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surviving buildings of Lung - hsing Ssu in Cheng - ting , Ho- peh , one of which was built in 971 to enshrine a standing Kuan - yin in bronze , 73 feet ( 22 metres ) high , now badly damaged . The Mo - ni Tien ( Pearl Hall ) of this ...
surviving buildings of Lung - hsing Ssu in Cheng - ting , Ho- peh , one of which was built in 971 to enshrine a standing Kuan - yin in bronze , 73 feet ( 22 metres ) high , now badly damaged . The Mo - ni Tien ( Pearl Hall ) of this ...
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... surviving examples of the secular art of the Impe- rial court and suggest that Chinese court art , which had not been imported during the Asuka period , began to be imitated in Japan about the time of the establishment of the capital in ...
... surviving examples of the secular art of the Impe- rial court and suggest that Chinese court art , which had not been imported during the Asuka period , began to be imitated in Japan about the time of the establishment of the capital in ...
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... surviving dry lacquer Ju Dai Deshi ( Ten Great Disciples of the Buddha ) and the eight dry lacquer Hachi - bu - shu ( Eight Supernatural Guardians of the Buddha ) at the Kōfuku - ji in Nara , made in 734 for the empress Kōmyō ( the con ...
... surviving dry lacquer Ju Dai Deshi ( Ten Great Disciples of the Buddha ) and the eight dry lacquer Hachi - bu - shu ( Eight Supernatural Guardians of the Buddha ) at the Kōfuku - ji in Nara , made in 734 for the empress Kōmyō ( the con ...
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