Example sentences for: kannon

How can you use “kannon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as “a thousand arms”) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers.

  • 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.

  • However, Sanjusangendo’s main wonder is its legion of 1,000 gilded Kannon images flanking the central Buddha.

  • 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.

  • 5-ft) thousand-armed Kannon statue.


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