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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Bussoku-seki of Yakushi-ji temple Alternative Name: 仏足石 Buddha Footprint 薬師寺Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 0.149 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Nara (Nara prefecture) Nearest Village: Nishikokyō-chō 西ノ
Latitude: 34.669080N Longitude: 135.784300E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Before the arrival of Hellenism (the Greek statue-making culture; Anabasis of Alexander the Great) to India, Buddhism denied idol worship like Islam and worshipped indirect icons. This one placed in the Great Lecture Hall (Daikōdō 大講堂) of Yakushi-ji temple in Nara city is the oldest in Japan. The Buddha footprints include pictorial symbols which represent Buddha’s virtue on fingers, root, centre and heel. Bu(t)s = Buddha + Soku = foot + Seki = stone.
It is a rePRINT of the Indian original like other scriptures introduced to Japan.
Other examples of icons are the Bodhi tree ; Śarīra (= fragment of bone of Buddha). Buddha footprint is another indirect worship target of Buddhism.
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