Tōdai-Ji Temple

13 06 2010
Wikipedia:

“Tōdai-ji (東大寺, Eastern Great Temple) is a Buddhist temple located in Nara City, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall (大仏殿 Daibutsuden), the largest wooden building in the world, houses the world’s largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu (大仏).”

You see here that from schools, kids come here (Organized Japanese kids!)

This place was HUGE, and very beautiful…

Like many other times, as foreigners we were in center of attention of Japanese girls… You can see how existed Eric was about them…

This Buddha also was very different in terms of shape (It should be, since it is the biggest of in the world.) I think Buddha’s hand was bigger than me !!

And, time for some adventure…

Japanese believe whoever passes through this hole, will be blessed by the Buddha.

The hole was so small !! SO SMALL !! Almost every one needed help to get through that. I have some nice shots taken during Vida, Carly, and Bryce are passing.

Here Bryce was so happy, because he couldn’t believe he had made it through …

I passed as well. It wasn’t as hard as it seams here.

When the kids were going through, they were like a train passing one after another; we took much longer …

By the way, did anyone feel the blessing of this hole yet ?