World Papercraft Buildings of the World Series Japan The Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple (section 1)
Canon World Papercraft Mini-book
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Buildings of the World Series Japan
The Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple
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The construction of the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple
began in A.D. 745, and the work of gilding, carving,
and constructing the backdrop continued for about 26
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years. After being repaired many times over the years,
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the statue is now 14.98 meters (49 feet 2 inches) tall.
However, it is thought that it was originally over 16
meters (52.5 feet) tall. This great statue, built over
1200 years ago, is a cast Buddha statue without peer
in the world.
*Cut out the card above and save it. You can collect the cards from each of the Papercraft
projects to make your own mini-book!
Directions
Print out pages 1 through 4, cut out each individual part along their cut lines,
and fold along the mountain and valley fold lines.
4. Build the lower body
1. Build the head 2. Build the arms 3. Build the upper body
About the hand positions
* glue together as shown in the figure
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* build the left arm
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The hand positions of
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together
in the same manner
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together Buddha statues have a
variety of meanings. The
right
meanings of the hand
arm 1 positions of the Great
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right arm 2 Buddha of Todaiji Temple
together
are explained below.
Bend the hands and
fingers of your Papercraft
sculpture into the
positions shown below.
glue together
Right hand
This position indicates
delivering people by
head
taking away their fears.
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5. Build the base 6. Put it all
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left arm
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right arm upper
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body
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base 4
together
Left hand
his position indicates
granting people's desires
and giving them blessings.
lower body
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Great Buddha of Todaiji
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Constructed: A.D. 752
Height: 14.98 meters
(49 feet 2 inches)
Weight of bronze: about 380 tons
Weight of gold: 48.4 kg
(about 106.5 pounds)
Casting of the Great Buddha
The Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple is too large to be cast all at
one time. So, the statue was made with eight separate castings,
as shown in the figure below.
First, a prototype model of the statue was built around a wooden
glue tab
framework. After the outer mold was made from this model, the
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model was then shaved down to a degree corresponding to the
thickness of the bronze to form the inner mold.
Then molten bronze was poured in to cast the lowest portion.
When that was done, the lower portion was filled with earth, and
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then the next section was cast.
This process was repeated eight times to form this gigantic
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The Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple
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