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sculpture, painting and murals, the wooden Avalokitesvara and the sutra repository are masterpieces of the period. The complex is very well preserved and a major achievement in Ming religious architecture.
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tree. The figure is nine metres tall and has 1,004 clusters of hands and eyes. At the centre of Huayan Hall is the revolving sutra cabinet, a huge octagonal wooden structure that turns like a
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axes. The many galleries connecting the halls form rectangular courtyards. Numerous other buildings are part of the complex including a meditation hall, a fasting hall, and storage halls.
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support and ornament the structures within the Bao'en Temple complex. The main hall is the most important building; its roof is covered with black and green
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pavilions stand on the east and west sides. As is characteristic of the Ming style, in every hall part of the ceiling is exposed. Dabei hall has double
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As is typical in Chinese Buddhist temples, the major halls were constructed along a central
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while the minor halls and other structures were built along
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Index

Bao'en Si

traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Buddhist
monastery
Pingwu County
Sichuan Province
China
Emperor Yingzong
Ming dynasty
pavilions
Avalokitesvara
sutra
Ming period
axis
transverse
Stele
eaves
dougong
sets of brackets
glazed
Guanyin
nanmu
lever
List of Buddhist temples


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