33 Sanjusangendo 3 is a piece of digital artwork by Eva Kaufman which was uploaded on September 27th, 2015.
33 Sanjusangendo 3
According to Japan-guide.com Sanjusangendo ,Sanjusangendo is the popular name for Rengeo-in, a temple in eastern Kyoto which is famous for its 1001... more
by Eva Kaufman
Title
33 Sanjusangendo 3
Artist
Eva Kaufman
Medium
Digital Art - Photographs, Painting, Digital Art, Watercolor
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According to Japan-guide.com Sanjusangendo ,Sanjusangendo is the popular name for Rengeo-in, a temple in eastern Kyoto which is famous for its 1001 statues of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. The temple was founded in 1164 and rebuilt a century later after the original structure had been destroyed in a fire.
The temple hall is with 120 meters Japan's longest wooden structure. The name Sanjusangendo (literally "33 intervals") derives from the number of intervals between the building's support columns, a traditional method of measuring the size of a building. In the center of the main hall sits a large, wooden statue of a 1000-armed Kannon (Senju Kannon) that is flanked on each side by 500 statues of human sized 1000-armed Kannon standing in ten rows. Together they make for an awesome sight.
1000-armed Kannon are equipped with 11 heads to better witness the suffering of humans and with 1000 arms to better help them fight the suffering. Note that the actual statues have only 42 arms each. Subtract the two regular arms and multiply by the 25 planes of existence to get the full thousand.
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September 27th, 2015
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