The Golden Shrine
Inside the Main Hall, there stands the magnificent golden shrine. It houses the image of Amida Triad carved by Mr. She Guo Ping, a living national treasure
of China. The wooden image of the triad measuring 8.45m high has no equal in the wor1d, and shines in brilliant gold as if the Buddha illuminates the wor1d
with sparkling light of compassion. The beam on top of the golden shrine is adorned with a sculpture of gilded twin dragons. The sculpture, measuring 3m high and 22.6m wide, was carved by Mr. She Guo Ping, a living national treasure of China. On both sides of the shrine, stand back to back, four gigantic relief sculptures with a height of 11m as high as a 4・story building.
Adorning the entire temple are more than 10,000 elaborate carvings and 370,000 golden chasings in total.
The magnificent doubly-gileded golden shrine with six-stepped intermediate brackt complexes, which measures 19m high, 19.98m wide, and 12.36m long.
On its roof, measuring 226.2㎡, there spread 16,000 gilded roof tiles in total.
The largest Buddhist temple structure in the world
The hall stands in the midd1e of rich greenery, surrounded by a range of mountains resembling the shape of a 10tus flower with its eight petals.
It is 51.5m high, comparab1e to an 18-story building. The upper part of the hall has six-stepped intermediate bracket comp1exes, the first of its kind in the history of Japanese architecture, and the 10wer part has four-stepped intermediate bracket complexes, both incorporating fan rafters.
Under the eaves, among the upper mu1ti-stepped intermediate bracket comp1exes, 80 scu1ptures of Sakyamuni Tathagata are attached, encouraging all sentient beings in all directions to save others. Adorned be10w are 88 carved dragons, and on the frog-1eg struts among the 10wer multi“ stepped intermediate bracket comp1exes, there are 104 carved dragons
on the outside and 104 life-size scu1ptures offlying ce1estia1 beings on the inside. Over 100,000 gold p1ates decorate the entire Main Hall brightly, manifesting the bri11iance of the Pure Land.
Looking up at the onigawara and the Stone Lantern, the two “No. l"s in the world
As many as 124,000 of the biggest roof tiles in the world are used, with each ti1e measuring 51.5cm in width and 57.6cm in 1ength. The onigawaras，demon-faced ridge-end tiles, rising on the waves of roof ti1es, were made by Master Ryoji Kajikawa.
Each of the tiles has the height of a 3-story building. The infuriated face of demon he1ps sentient beings to sweep away their desires and bring about pure and innocent minds.
In front of the Main Hall, the 1arge Stone Lanterns stand high on both sides. They cease1ess1y illuminate and guide sentient beings to the Buddhist way.
