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After decades missing, Buddha statue to return to Hiroshima
The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...
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Lisa’s Wanderings Around Japan/ Ushiku Buddha: Finding one’s way to the Pure Land in massive Ibaraki statue
It was with such thoughts that I visited Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki Prefecture. It’s genuinely gargantuan--one of the tallest Buddha statues in the world, seemingly soaring to the heavens with a ...
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Celestial clean: Japanese duo spruce up world's tallest bronze Buddha
Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... "we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies ...
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Japanese climbers clean up world's tallest bronze Buddha
Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... "we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies ...