Japan: Horyuji We'll come back to Nara, but for the moment we've taken a 10- or 15-minute train ride from Nara, plus a short walk, to see the oldest extant Buddhist temple in Japan and perhaps the oldest wooden building in the world.  It's at the Horyuji Temple--the "Temple of the Flourishing Law"--founded in 607 by Prince Shotoku at the command of his aunt, the Empress Suiko.

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