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Dr. Deanna MacDonald

Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall), Todai-ji, Nara, Japan, 743, rebuilt. c. 1700 (photo: author, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — This massive temple was built to impress—twice. Its monumental timber frame required a veritable cypress forest.

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