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Buddha hall where statues of Amida Nyorai (Amitabha Buddha), Senju Kannon (a bodhisattva with 1,000 arms) and Bato Kannon (Avalokiteshvara with a fierce face and a horse's head in the hair dress) are enshrined.
Kannon is the most important bodhisattva in all main schools of Buddhism, and is an attendant of Amida Buddha. Kwannon is sometimes depicted with many arms extending compassion. Images of Kwannon, originally based on an idealized Indian prince, grew gradually more androgynous. Kannon can be depicted with various attributes. One form has ten small Amida heads on top of its own head. The many-armed Kannon can have four or six arms, or a thousand. There is also a manifestation in the shape of a horse that saves people from shipwreck.
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