{"id":2415,"date":"2023-05-25T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:57:48","slug":"one-million-pagodas-and-jishinin-dharani-prayers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"One Million Pagodas and Jishin\u2019in Dharani Prayers\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nara period (8<sup>th<\/sup> century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This small wooden pagoda is one of the million small pagodas commissioned by Emperor Shotoku in 770. The body of each pagoda contains a dharani, or woodblock printed Buddhist invocation, on which are written prayers for long life and protection from disaster. These are said to be the oldest surviving printed material of their kind in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While one million pagodas were built and dedicated to the ten great temples of Nara \u2014 among them Todaiji, H\u014dryuji, Yakushiji and K\u014dfukuji \u2014 many of them were destroyed by fire, and today the only extant examples survive in H\u014dry\u016bji. In fact, this particular wooden pagoda was given by H\u014dry\u016bji to the Homma family in 1908 as thanks for a donation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nara period (8th century) Donated by the Homma family This small wooden pagoda is one of the million small pag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}