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Regarding the Ise Shrine (伊勢神宮), the practice is called Sengū (遷宮) related to preserving mystical spirits, supporting trades, tradition, and respecting the cyclical impermanence of all things. By contrast, Hōryū Gakumonji (法隆学問寺) is a 1350+ years old wooden structure more closely related to the themes of imported Buddhism long before the shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) but in Japanese style. There are/were very large buddha figures carved into rock throughout Iran, Afghanistan, China during the Mongol period and also semi-contemporaneously c. ~7th century Japan's Usuki Stone Buddhas (臼杵磨崖仏). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seng%C5%AB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji | ||