This bronze of Yakushi Nyorai, the buddha of healing and medicine, has been patched up with some rough plaster or concrete. One can speculate that the hands were stolen by a rival temple or sect, as happened often with relics in feudal Japan.
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This bronze of Yakushi Nyorai, the buddha of healing and medicine, has been patched up with some rough plaster or concrete. One can speculate that the hands were stolen by a rival temple or sect, as happened often with relics in feudal Japan.