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 Precious Light Temple (Baoguang Temple)
north of Chengdu is said to have been
built in the Eastern Han Dynasty
(25-220). Its major structures are built
with some 400 stone pillars and
decorated with figurines of birds and
animals on their eaves and carvings of
flowers and plumes on their doors and
windows. Kept in the temple are such
treasures as Sarira (monks’ ashes) and
Buddhist scriptures written on Pattra
Leaves.
The Arhat Hall, built in the 19th
century, contains 500 2m-high clay
figurines representing Buddhist saints
and disciples.Well, not all of them:
among this spaced-out lot are two
earthlings- emperors Kangxi and Qianlong.
They’re distinguishable by their royal
costumes, beards, boots and capes. One
of the impostors, Kangxi, is shown with
a pockmarked face. |
