Tō-ji Temple (東寺, Tō-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: Tō-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: Tō-dō (東塔, "East Pagoda"), Sai-tō (西塔, "West Pagoda"), and Yokokawa (横川)...
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Japanese pagoda (redirect from Tō)
tō, 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-tō)...
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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 Tō-ji) ran at the Oda Memorial meet...
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Kōfuku-ji inside Tō-kondō Yakushi Nyorai (Important Cultural Property) inside Tō-kondō Hoku'endō, older of the two octagonal halls Gojū-no-tō five-storied...
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796, two years after the capital moved to Heian-kyō. Sai-ji was established together with the other temple, Tō-ji (the East Temple). Each occupied a square...
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achieved control of Tō-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 (2007 concert) (section Tō-ji (Japan))
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 Tō-ji, Kyoto Nintendo became the world's most successful video game company. Osaka...
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