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Since India is the birthplace of Gautama Buddha and the cradle of the Buddhist faith....
Nov 26, 2019,10:24 AM
The word Torii may have been derived from the Sanskrit Torana or gateway.
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What a lovely old 'gate'...
By: cshimokita : November 21st, 2019-15:06
here in Japan it might be called 鳥居 (torii, literally bird abode) and is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred. I like the co...