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Book: Landscape Gardening in Japan, 1912
Chapter: Chapter 2. Garden Stones

Buddha stones

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In some temple grounds many rocks are still named after Buddhas, and Buddhist saints, the system of arrangement followed being simply one of order in theological rank and position (see Fig. 10, page 43). Their object is to assist in the religious contemplation of the priests and acolytes.