Kyoto National Treasure! The most stunning 1,001 Buddha statues.

1. Sanjusangendo: Kyoto's dazzling treasure Sanjusangendo, located in the Higashiyama District of Kyoto, was built in 1164 and is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Japan. The main building is rectangular and 120 meters long, and is named after the 33 spaces separated by beams and columns. As a national treasure of Japan, it is one of the most exciting temple buildings in Kyoto. 2. Opening information - Address: 657 Sanjusangendo-mawari-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. - Open from Monday to Sunday, 09:00 - 17:00, ticket sales stop at 16:30. 3. Ticket price - Adults 600 yen (about RMB 38). - Junior high school and high school students 400 yen (about RMB 28). - Children 300 yen (about RMB 19). 4. Visit requirements Photography is prohibited in the Buddha Hall, and shoes must be removed when entering to show respect for religious places. 5. Main attractions - Treasure of the temple: 11-faced, thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Guanyin statue - The Guanyin statue enshrined in the center of the main hall is 3.3 meters high, with eleven faces and different expressions, lifelike. - The 42 hands of the main body each hold a Dharma instrument, with beautiful body postures and exquisite carvings. - The Buddha's light on the top of the head is round and solemn, which is shocking. - The guardian gods, the wind god and the thunder god, are exaggerated in shape and full of supernatural power. The wind god carries a wind bag on his shoulder, and the thunder god beats the drum on his back, with vivid artistic expression. - Thousand Guanyin statues and twenty-eight group statues - There are a thousand Guanyin statues on both sides of the hall, standing with their hands together, and the twenty-eight group statues of the beautiful Guanyin Bodhisattva are in the same hall. - This batch of Guanyin statues was built during the Kamakura period. Due to a fire, only 124 Buddha statues built during the Heian period were rescued. After 15 years of careful carving by sculptors, 876 statues were rebuilt. - The Buddha statues are made of cypress wood and lacquered gold. There are a thousand Buddhas and a thousand faces, reflecting the Buddhist doctrine of "all laws are born from the mind". - Tips - Visitors take off their shoes and enter the hall. The Buddha statues on the steps are slightly leaning forward, and the golden Buddha statues have a strong aura. - 124 of them are relics of the Heian period, and the rest were built later. The seated Thousand-Hand Guanyin is a national treasure of Japan and a representative work of Master Zhanqing at the age of 80. - If you look at the Guanyin statue for a long time, you will get tired. You can focus on the exaggerated and tense 28 group wooden Dharma protectors. 6. Special activities Every year on January 15th, an archery ceremony "Toshiya" is held in front of Sanjusangendo. The shooter aims and shoots from a distance of 60 meters, inheriting history and promoting culture.