The Buddhist Bell of the Yuan Dynasty (1279- 1368) is 2.12 meters in height, 1.3 meters in rim diameter and 2,048 kilograrns in weight. Cast with bronze alloy, it contains 71 percent of copper ...

Astonishingly the bell was cast entirely with Buddhist sutras and incantations in Han and Sanskrit languages. This is an unequalled Buddhist bell. Some historical records regard the bell as the ...

The sounding of the 2,100-pound bell, from a temple in Tajima Province and now part of the museum’s permanent collection, was overseen by Zen Buddhist priest Gengo Akiba Roshi, the museum said.

The large Buddhist statues, when they come into view, are a marvel in themselves given their sheer size. A unique experience that visitors likely won’t encounter many places is the “Bell Tower ...