SACRED SITES OF ASIA TAASA Monday Night Zoom Lectures 5.30 – 6.30pm Cost: Members $12; Non-members $20 Special price for the whole series: Members $50; Non-Members $70 Payment in advance essential. No refunds. Booking confirmation: Chris Manning. Email: taasabookings@gmail.com Payment by EFT: The Asian Arts Society of Australia BSB: 012-003, Account No. 2185-28414. Please provide name. Pay by credit card via TAASA website www.taasa.org.au. - TAASA Review December 2022

SACRED SITES OF ASIA TAASA Monday Night Zoom Lectures 5.30 – 6.30pm Cost: Members $12; Non-members $20 Special price for the whole series: Members $50; Non-Members $70 Payment in advance essential. No refunds. Booking confirmation: Chris Manning. Email: taasabookings@gmail.com Payment by EFT: The Asian Arts Society of Australia BSB: 012-003, Account No. 2185-28414. Please provide name. Pay by credit card via TAASA website www.taasa.org.au. – TAASA Review December 2022

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This article was originally found in the December 2022 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 28).

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Monday 6 March 2023 The Origins of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: The Kitayama Temple-Palace Complex in 14th-century Kyoto Matthew Stavros The Kinkaku ‘Golden Pavilion’ is Kyoto’s most celebrated UNESCO World Heritage property.

Its opulence and architectural originality overshadows the much larger complex within which it was originally built in the late 14th century: the Kitayama Villa.

This presentation explores Kitayama’s material composition to demonstrate that the villa was a vast temple-palace complex built to resemble a Chinese-style imperial capital...