🌸🌺🌿🍃 Tōshōdai-ji(2)

As an alternative, there is the "Statue of the Substitute Body of the Great Monk Jianzhen" for people to worship. 🙏 🌸🌺🌿 In the "Pure Land of the Great Monk Jianzhen's Temple," surrounded by moss, one follows the path, crosses a stone bridge, and arrives at the place where Monk Jianzhen rests eternally. 🌸🌺🌿 On both sides of the no-stepping area in front of the stele, there are stone carvings of Chinese poems. 📜 Monk Jianzhen dedicated himself to Buddhism in Japan and rests in a foreign land, but his compatriots also come to visit him continuously. 🌸🌺🌿 This is also a kind of homecoming in another sense. 🏞️ #Nara 🌸 #ToshodaiJi 🌺 #HeijoPalaceRuins 🌿🍃