How master sculptors Unkei and Kaikei propelled the Kei school to new heights with a great project at Todai-ji Temple
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The Yuji Experience: A Singular Voice for Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
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Exploring the heritage, beauty, and intricacy of Japanese Buddhist sculpture with Yujiro Seki
Octopus Buddhas and Aliens: The Story of Tako Yakushi
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One of my favorite films about aliens is ArrivalĀ (2016), based onĀ Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life (1998). It portrays otherworldly visitors as enlightened extraterrestrials with a literally timeless grasp of language and causality. Aside from being spacefaring travellers and inhabiting spacecraft that leave no residue, traces, or pollution, the advanced creatures of Arrival perceive time […]