Sanjusangendo

Sanjusando is a long hall of Rengeoin Temple.
Sanjusan means 33. Gen means space between pillars.

This hall is 120 m long from North to South.
There're 1000 standing statues of Buddha lined up in the hall.

These are called Senju Kannon, and each one has 1000 hands.
Actually a statue has 42 hands and 2 hands joined together in prayer each one of other 40 hands saves one world. So one statue saves 1000 worlds.

Also, it has 11 faces on the head.

It looks like forest of Buddha.
In the middle of the forest, there's a large sitting statues of Buddha.
All other 1000 statues size is human size.

Archery contest was held on the outside hallway.
They competed how many arrows went all way through the hallway (120 m !!) in 24 hours. Record is more than 8000 successes out of more than 10000 trials.

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<The Nearest Bus Stop>

Hakubutsukan / Sanjusangendo - Mae

<Admission>

600 yen

8:00 - 17:00
9:00 - 16:00 (Nov. 16 through Mar. 31)

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