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Ep. 048: The Great Kannon at Hase-dera

The Great Buddha's great neighbor

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James Baquet
May 15, 2020
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[Note: Many of the photos in this Episode were provided by my lovely wife Lila, taken on our Japan trip in 2006.]

Aside from the famed Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo's Asukusa--to which I could ride my bicycle from my home of over two years--probably no temple in Japan was more familiar to me than Hase-dera in Kamakura, home of the 30-foot wooden Kannon. Let's visit that gorgeous place in this episode of

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