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However, Sanjusangendo’s main wonder is its legion of 1,000 gilded Kannon images flanking the central Buddha.
In the Kannon Hall of this temple is the largest wooden devotional figure in the country: a statue of the “Eleven-Faced Goddess of Mercy,” some 10 m (33 ft) high, carved from a single tree trunk and covered in gold leaf.
Highlights include an Indian-style Shaka triad; the Yumechigae (“Dream Changing”) Kannon, said to transform its worshippers’ nightmares into pleasant dreams; and the Kudara Kannon, a graceful, willowy statue named after a region in Korea, whose designer and creator was almost certainly Korean.
In the center is Amida Nyorai, the Buddha who leads believers to Paradise; on the right is Senju (“Thousand-Armed”) Kannon, the goddess of mercy; on the left is Bato-Kannon, depicted with a horse’s head on its forehead, regarded as the protector of animals.
The temple enshrines a 5-m (16-ft) standing figure of Kannon, the Goddess of Mercy, said to have been carved more than 1,000 years ago from the trunk of a single Judas tree.