Screen Wall
Meditation Hall
Great Shrine Hall
Guanyin Hall...
Hall of Deva-kings
Bronze Buddha Hall
Guesthouse
Abbot¡¯s Office
Sleeping Buddha Hall
Jade Buddha Hall
The Bronze Buddha Hall and the Five Meditation House

In the Bronze Buddha Hall, there is a bronze Amitabha Buddha in standing posture, it is said that was made in the Ming dynasty. The sculpture is about three meters high, his right-hand bends upward in Abhayapradada sign, i.e. the bestowing of fearlessness and confidence, and his left-hand stretches downward in the varada mudra, i.e. a sign of willing to grant. Amitabha is the Buddha of the West Paradise. He has given forty-eight vows and wishes to all the living creatures before his being Buddha. Only if any one chants the name of Amitabha and makes up his mind to cultivate himself, he will go to the West Paradise after his death and is reborn from a lotus flower. Therefore, the Pure land belief is extremely popular among Chinese common people.

A short walk on from the Bronze Buddha Hall, there is the Five Meditation Hall. The so-called ¡°five meditations¡± are Meditation on the reality of void, Meditation on purity, Meditation on the wider and greater wisdom, Meditation on compassion condition of the living and Meditation on mercy. The Five Meditation Hall is the dining hall for the monks.

 
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