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Historic Temples of Japan: Kinkakuji Apr 7th 2012, 11:05 As beautiful as it is, the Golden Pavilion of Kyoto is not a good example of austere beauty -- it's covered with real gold. The Golden Pavilion Temple, Kinkakuji, seen covered with snow. Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images Kinkakuji -- which means "Deer Garden Pavilion" -- was built in 1397 as a retirement home for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. After the Shogun died in 1406, the pavilion became a Rinzai Zen temple. The original temple was destroyed later in the 15th century, and rebuilt. A disturbed monk burned the temple to its foundations in 1950. The current structure was built in 1955. It is an exact copy of the previous temple, except that there is more gold leaf than before. Kinkakuji's primary function is as a shariden, which is something like a reliquary -- inside are kept relics of the Buddha.

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