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Kinkaku-ji temple in Kyoto,Japan

Its famous Golden Pavilion Kinkaku—actually a pagoda made to house the sacred relics of the Buddha—has given this temple the popular name of Kinkaku-ji “Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, however the official name of this branch temple of the Rinzai-sect Zen temple of Shokoku-ji is Rokuon-ji. The temple was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.

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