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Not long after he became head priest, Kōchō gathered a team of amateurs to begin sculpting small statues of 'rakan' (羅漢 aka 'arhats'), the 500 disciples present when Buddha first expounded the Flower Sutra.
The initial goal was 500 statues.
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