12 Season
220 Episode
Core Kyoto - Season 1 Episode 3 Buddhist Statues: Figures of Belief and Beauty (2024)
Kyoto has about 2,700 temples where an array of benevolent, meek, and ferocious Buddhist statues are worshipped. World Heritage temple Toji has a configuration of statues in an imposing, 3D mandala and a beautifully woven mandala, which captures the cosmos. The jizo statues standing on street corners have a special place in the lives and hearts of Kyotoites. Today, sculptors continue to breathe life into Buddhist statues, and skilled craftsmen create magnificent works using gold leaf in microns.
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : NHK WORLD-JAPAN
- Director :
- Cast : Gary Tegler
