Monk Jianzhen in the Tang Dynasty braved all the hardships to make his eastward voyages to Japan and his sitting statue is still enshrined and worshipped in Toshodai-ji Temple, Nara.

中国唐朝鉴真和尚东渡日本，他的坐像现在供奉在奈良唐招提寺。

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The world's biggest wooden building is the grand temple of Todai-ji in the city of Nara.

世界上最大的木制建筑是奈良市宏伟的东大寺寺庙。

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The pedestrian path Tetsugaku-no-Michi, named after 20th-century philosopher Nishida Kataro, stretches for three kilometres alongside a canal in eastern Kyoto and connects Ginkakuji temple to Nanzen-ji temple.

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Kodai-ji is a historic Zen temple located in the scenic Higashiyama area and was one of the first temples to kick off after-dark illuminations (when the gardens are lit by multicoloured spotlights), allowing cherry blossom viewing to continue well into the night.

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From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.

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