Golden Pavilion Temple
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"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima based on the true incident in 1950 when a monk of the Temple, Lin Yangxian, set fire to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. It mainly tells the story of Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with stuttering and came from a poor countryside to become a monk at the Kinkaku Temple. He was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkaku Temple all day long and imagined the magnificent scene of dying with the Kinkakuji in the flames of war. However, the end of the war made this wish disappear forever. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated the demonic barriers that once existed in his mind. The alienated image of the Golden Temple no longer existed. His originally suppressed humanity was released, and his horizons shackled by phantoms were also expanded. Destruction became the path to rebirth.
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