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The architecture of western temples
The temple is like a palace-style building in China, with a yellow glazed tile on the top, which is magnificent. The upper hero hall is dedicated to the three saints of the West, with Manjushri and Mahayana Bodhisattva on the left and Guanyin Bodhisattva on the far left, all carved by famous artists and decorated with exquisite niches carved with cornices.

The walls of the temple are inlaid with marble, the ceiling is carved with dragons, and the buildings are carved with beams and painted buildings, which are dazzling and magnificent.

On each side, there is a lifelike statue of eighteen arhats in Tuo Shi.

It also enshrines the exquisite statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Ming Dynasty. It is the largest cloisonne Guanyin statue in China, which is very rare.

Downstairs, in the center of the temple, a tall golden lacquer Buddha cup serves as the Maitreya Buddha Hall, which is dedicated to Maitreya Buddha and Bodhisattva with a big belly, solemn Buddhism, broad-minded and always smiling, surrounded by glass, spotless and well protected. Under the Buddha Cup Maitreya, there are three multi-treasure pagodas of Sambo Buddha.

Behind the Hall of the Great Hero is a two-story building, with the upstairs hall of the Earth Treasure King, a bodhisattva in the middle and ancestral halls on both sides. Downstairs is Haihui Building.

There are lecture halls, five-view halls, Buddhist colleges, zhaitang, dormitories and lotus ponds around Daxiong Hall.

In order to further expand the function of spreading Buddhism in western temples, a library was built after 199 1 for tourists and surrounding citizens to read;

Behind the temple is a nine-story ten thousand Buddha Pagoda, each floor is dedicated to different Buddha statues, and the space inside the pagoda is a Buddhist cultural relics museum.

West Temple is a Jing Zong Dojo built by Master Yongxing to realize his ambition.