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Kinkaku-ji is one of Kyoto's driving sanctuaries. Its formal name is Rokuon-ji. It was worked toward the finish of the fourteenth century initially as an estate for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the shogun at the time. After Yoshimitsu's passing, as showed in his will, the building was changed over into a sanctuary of the Zen organization of Buddhism, which is well known for the act of zazen, or religious reflection a noteworthy strategy for Buddhist preparing, and technique for contemplation for setting up one's establishment in Zen Buddhism. The sparkling Kinkaku "Golden Pavilion" is an image of Kyoto. This sanctuary has been torched commonly in the blazes of war and different fires, and all the more as of late by pyro-crime, which occurrence has been made well known by Yukio Mishima's novel, Kinkakuji The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. In any case, it was reestablished in 1955, with real change work being done on it in 1987, so the majority of the gold leaf has been supplanted.

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