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This figure’s “heavenly multitude” is replaced with music-playing aliens in a 1996 work of 3D video art. Six tiny statues of this figure stand on a wire that extends out of the mouth of a bald man with an antler-topped walking staff in a naturalistic 13th-century sculpture. Silken cords were often attached to sculptures of this figure, who stands on swirling clouds (-5[1])with 25 attendants in paintings from the “Welcoming Descent” genre. Multiple (15[1])artisans (-5[1])carved small parts of this figure’s (*) gold-leaf-covered (-5[1])sculpture at Phoenix Hall in the first use of the “joined-wood,” or yosegi, technique invented by Jōchō. Heian-era raigo paintings depict this figure bringing (-5[1])dying devotees (10[1])to a world also depicted in (10[1])Diamond Realm mandalas. (10[2])For 10 points, name this figure depicted in the Great Buddha of Kamakura and other sculptures of Pure Land Buddhism. ■END■ (10[9]0[1])

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