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Otagi Nenbutsui Temple - Japan's most unique and bizarre temple :

Otagi Nenbutsu-ji, a Buddhist temple located in hillside of Arashiyama neighborhood of Kyoto, Japan. Due to its remote locate location, temple is not well know to locals. The gate of temple contains two fierce-looking Nio statues that welcome visitors as they enter. Inside the temple are more than 1200 rakan, stone statues representing the disciples of Buddha. The rakan statues are the main attraction to the temple as they adorn the hillside surrounding the temple buildings.

Otagi Nenbutsu-ji was originally founded by Empress Shōtoku around Kyoto's Gion district in 766 AD. Though was destroyed by the flooding of Kamo River, it was rebuilt as an offshoot of Enryaku-ji, a nearby temple. In 13th Century AD, it was again destroyed during a civil war. Over time, the temple fell into disrepair and was eventually moved to its current location of Arashiyama in 1922, in an attempt to save core structure of temple building. However, temple received another serious blow in 1950, when it suffered typhoon damage.

In 1955, Kocho Nishimura (1915-2003), who had honed his craft as a sculptor and restorer of Buddhist statues before becoming a monk, was appointed head of Otagi Nenbutsuji, marking the start of the temple's remarkable transformation. Extensive renovation efforts beginning in 1981, lasting a decade. During this period, much of the temple was taken apart, renovated, and restored.

A major endeavor during this time involved crafting 1200 stone rakan statues, which now adorn the temple's surrounding hills. These rakan, disciples of Buddha, were carved by novices who traveled there to learn the art under Nishimura's direction. He encouraged them to express the distinct, intrinsic qualities of the stone, resulting in a diverse range of figures, some in solemn prayer, others depicting joy or laughter, or even incorporating elements reflective of the carvers' personal interests. This site uniquely blends divine and mundane, showcasing a collection of religious sculptures unmatched anywhere else in Japan.

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Kazakhstan, believed to be birthplace of apple and also thought to be land where man first tamed wild horse.

Alan Outram, a British archaeologist from University of Exeter, stated that his research team had discovered evidence that pushed back earliest signs of widespread riding and milking of horses by 1000 to 2000 years from previous estimates. The excavated remains of horses from Botai region of northern Kazakhstan. Radiocarbon dating established that these remains were around 5,500 years old – a period far earlier than Old Kingdom of Egypt or ancient Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and even before the Mohenjo-Daro civilization of modern Pakistan.

Teeth of these small steppe horses showed unmistakable evidence of having been subjected to bits – an indication that they were used either for riding or pulling carts. They also found broken pieces of pottery used by Botai culture that still contained elements of fat from horses and their milk. This was clear evidence that steppe horses were already being used at this early date to provide both meat and milk – substances which remain prized in Kazakh cuisine and culture today. Researchers also found that horse bones they excavated were slender – a sure sign throughout history of domesticated and carefully bred horses, not of wild ones that had not been subjected to controlled and selective breeding.

Outram’s discoveries are also consistent with a wider emerging body of evidence that many of key developments in human civilization and agriculture took place across vast steppes of heartland of Asia, and not just in river valleys of Middle East and southern and Eastern Asia, as archaeologists for so long assumed.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of towns and therefore of urban civilization, in territories of modern Kazakhstan far earlier than experts previously assumed. This uncovered that horse was domesticated in Asian steppes at least 3100 to 3600 years ago in Botai region – a period of time parallel with New Kingdom of Egypt and Minoan Empire of ancient Crete. Early findings uncovered primitive tools for working leather that suggested, first, that cattle were being domesticated to provide leather and hides and, second, that leather was being worked to make harnesses that could only have been used on horses, not cattle.

Outram team was surprised by amount of confirmation they actually uncovered and, most of all, by the far earlier dates that their data belonged to. New finds also suggest that traditional practices of ancient Kazakh tribes – eating meat of their horses and drinking their milk as well as using them for transportation – go back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization. They also suggest that spirit of innovation and technology in ancient history did not come only from towns and densely populated river valley cultures on rims of Africa and Asia, but also from heart of “grass ocean” of steppe. Though larger world’s discovery of Kazakhstan’s early domestication of horse is recent, Kazakh scholars have long argued that their homeland was origin of taming of horse. Location, climatic and environmental demands of steppe life would have logically focused the ingenuity and expertise of its people in this direction as essential skills to their survival. Latest findings confirm these long held local beliefs.

Popularity and significance of horse in Kazakh culture today remains strong. New hippodromes or racetracks have opened in Almaty, nation’s largest city and in Kazakhstan’s new capital Astana. Equestrian sports centers have sprung up and horse trekking in nation’s national parks and mountains are popular pastimes.

Kazakhstan has emerged from mists of history as both the most modern and ancient of nations along fabled Silk Road. And its long-cherished equestrian culture has now revealed to have provided a giant gallop forward for human progress.

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