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    -ji Temple (東寺, -ji, "East Temple"), also known as Kyō-ō-gokoku-ji (教王護国寺, The Temple for the Defense of the Nation by Means of the King of Doctrines)...
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    Kūkai (category Japanese ambassadors to the Tang dynasty)
    to follow him. He did commission two new temples: -ji (Eastern Temple) and Sai-ji (Western Temple) which flanked the road at southern entrance to the...
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    this location. Today, most of Enryaku-ji's buildings are clustered in three areas: -dō (東塔, "East Pagoda"), Sai- (西塔, "West Pagoda"), and Yokokawa (横川)...
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    Kōfuku-ji inside -kondō Yakushi Nyorai (Important Cultural Property) inside -kondō Hoku'endō, older of the two octagonal halls Gojū-no- five-storied...
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    Kiryū lowered his own record to 10.19 seconds. On 29 April 2013, Kiryū (still a student at Rakunan High School in -ji) ran at the Oda Memorial meet...
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  • Japanese pagoda (redirect from )
    , once used exclusively in a religious context, came to mean also "tower" in the western sense, as for example in Eiffel Tower (エッフェル塔, Efferu-)...
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    796, two years after the capital moved to Heian-kyō. Sai-ji was established together with the other temple, -ji (the East Temple). Each occupied a square...
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    achieved control of -ji for the Shingon school, which was a major temple within the capital. His final request before his death in 832 was to construct a Shingon...
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  • Live Earth was a one-off event developed to combat climate change. The first series of benefit concerts were held on July 7, 2007. The concerts brought...
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    perfected the courtesy of the tea ceremony. Japan's tallest temple pagoda in -ji, Kyoto Nintendo became the world's most successful video game company. Osaka...
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