Description • The world's largest wooden building, the Todaiji Daibutsu-den houses the Great Buddha of Nara. It has been rebuilt several times due to wartime destruction. The temple was originally built in 734. The current temple, finished in 1708, is 2/3 the size of the largest incarnation.
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