Power of information - Major temples were the first to learn knowledge which had been brought to Japan by intellectuals including foreign monks as well as monks who had joined Japanese envoys to Sui and Tong Dynasties China and studied abroad.
情報力-大寺院では、遣隋使・遣唐使に加わった留学僧や、渡来僧などの知識人が、日本にもたらした知識をいち早く学ぶことができた。