Nara Park
A large part of the park is covered by lawn. Over 1,200 wild deer, growing freely in colonies in the park, are classified as a Natural monument of Japan and are also protected as sacred creatures having brought the local divinity to this place. |
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Deer in the Park |
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The west entrance of the Nara National Museum in the Park |
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One of the exhibits explaining the "Mudra", symbolic or ritual gestures in Hinduism and Buddhism, (the one taken by the Dainishi-nyorai in the Diamond Realm) |