It is said that the building enshrined a golden statue of Buddha and could accommodate 3,000 people, with two layers of kairo (a long-roofed, portico-like passage connecting two buildings) that surrounded a two-storied tower with a nine-tier 銅槃 (doban) hanging from a sorin at the top. これは金色の仏像をまつり、相輪(そうりん)に九重の銅槃(どうばん)を垂らした二重の楼閣を中心として、二層の回廊をめぐらし3千人を収容できたという。 |