建仁寺の双龍図は圧巻！

先日飛鳥山公園で撮った写真もいくつか。このアヴァロキテスヴァラの像は本当によく作られているように感じたので、本当に好きでした。この碑には、石に刻まれたものが読みづらいので、古い日本語で書かれているので、友達も読めなかったので、説明を含めました笑。 桜についての詩と関係があると思いますが、私はそれについて間違っている可能性があります。 でも、何百年も前の年配の日本人を見るのはとてもクールです。読めなくても、日本語自体が何年にもわたってどのように進化してきたかを見るのは興味深いことです。明日もこの場所の写真をもっと投稿します!

Some more photos I took at Todaiji Temple. The first statue is of Vaisravana 多聞天/毘沙門天, another of the Four Heavenly Kings, holding a staff and some sort of small pagoda,. The second statue is Cintamanicakra 如意輪観音, a bodhisattva. The third photo is a unfortunately poor quality photo of Vairocana, the Cosmic Buddha from my understanding. The rest of the photos are models of Todaiji's Great Buddha Hall from 800 and 300 years ago, and Nandai-mon, the Great South Gate. The pagoda is, from my understanding, a replica of one of the lost pagodas that used to be located at Todaiji Temple, but I believe was burnt down? I could be wrong about that though. Then last is a photo of the heads of Virudhaka 増長天left, and Dhrtarastra 持国天right, two of the Four Heavenly Kings. Lots of cool stuff to be seen at Todaiji! Definitely recommend it. My photos don't do it justice at all.

I found some photos of when I visited Todaiji Temple. I took a photo of the bronze lantern out front of the temple because I thought it looked really cool, but it's pretty crazy to think that the lantern is around 1,300 years old at this point. I also took some photos of a few of the statues inside the temple, the first being Akasagarbha 虚空蔵菩薩, one of the Eight Great Bodhisattva, and the second which took me forever to find the name of... being Virupaksa 広目天, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. I'm not sure what Virupaksa is made of but I think this statue is made of wood, although I could be wrong. It looks like a different material from the other statues inside the temple, although it's been quite a while since I visited and I can't recall exactly. All the statues are really awesome though. I'll have to upload some more photos later!

兵庫県朝来市、姫宮神社にある銅像。雪が被った姿はまるで成人式を迎える女の子のよう？可愛くて思わずシャッターを切りました。

定義山に昔行った時の写真です。