It is said that Luojia Hill of Putuo in the South Sea is the place where the Bodhisattva lives and teaches. Thus there is another title for the Bodhisattva “Avalokitesvara of the South Sea”. The image that the Bodhisattvasa stands on the head of a great turtle means that on the bark of mercy Avalokitesvara helps all people out of disasters. Around the walls are stuccos of boys, which tell the story of fifty-three worships of Sudhana. According to Entry into the Dharma Realm of Avatamsaka Sutra, Sudhana seeks the way of Buddha, receives help from Manjusri and visits many places, and finally he meets Samantabhadra and obtains his correct wisdom. This is the so-called story of fifty-three worships. Below the stuccos stand different aquatic animals and eighteen arhats in different postures. The meaning of arhat is killing the thief (lust, greed ,hatred), worthy of offering and no rebirth. They have obtained the highest degree of results in their cultivation of Hinayana Buddhism. If one reaches such a degree, he has cut himself from any vexation, the cycle of rebirth and should be worshipped by all. The eighteen sculptures are in different facial expression. Some are kind-faced and some stare angrily with eyes wide open, vivid and lively.

In front of the Hall in the middle of the open space stands a precious tripod. There are stone tablets of eighteen arhats on the east and west outside walls of the hall. On the wall of the east corridor are embedded with stone tablets of thirty-two incarnations of Avalokitesvara along the corridor drawn by the famous painters through the ages. On the wall of the west corridor are embedded stone tablets telling the important events in the life of Sakyamuni, “The Story of Sakyamuni’s Enlightenment in Eight Drawings”.