Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Go to Oita Prefectural Museum of history and then to Fukiji temple

The history museum has remarkable replicas of historical assets in the Kunisaki Peninsula, Oita Pref. The photo below was taken in the lobby of the museum and photography is allowed there. 
In the lobby of the museum, a replica of the carved Cosmic Buddha is exhibited

In one of the exhibit rooms, the interior of the main hall of Fukiji temple is reproduced beautifully. It's so awesome that visitors would feel the reproduced statue of Amitabha Buddha should be the object of worship. 
Here the original colorful appearance of the hall and gold-leafed statue can be viewed. You can even walk around the central inner zone where the Buddha sits and see how the back of the statue looks like. Here is the link to the museum web site. 

After this, you should go to Fukiji temple and see the real hall and the statue. They were originally built in the eighth century. They've survived to this day but became antique over centuries. 
Head priest just closed the side doors. The front doors are always closed.


You will have a time travel with your imagination by visiting these two places one after another.

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