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20 devas (heavenly being) (诸天) ，the female cannibal (食人者) and 12

Pratyeka Buddhas (圆觉)

1)the Great and Magnificent Hall (The Main Hall ) (01:00) Now we move to the second hall , the Main Hall or the Great Buddha Hall. It’s 33.6 meters high . The hall is one-story building with three eaves and is in Tang Dynasty style of architecture . In the middle of the top ，you can see two dragons and one silver pearl.. They are called “Two Dragons Playing with A Pearl “ .

Here in front of the hall ，there are two pagodas . They were built in 960AD , when Hangzhou was the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom . The king had them built in honor of a Grand Monk . They are the oldest witnesses of the temple . 2）the Statue of Sakyamuni (01:00)

Now let’s enter the hall . The big statue sitting in the center is Sakyamuni , the founder of Buddhism . It is made up of 24 pieces of camphor wood with a height of 19.6 meters . It is highest wood statue in sitting position in China . It is coated with 3 kilogrames of pure gold . A Chinese saying goes like this : to show the value of a man ，he should be dressed up ; to show the value of a Buddha statue , it should be gilded .

Now let’s pay attention to this statue Please look at his blue hair knot , It’s a kind of hairy style in ancient India for man . Blue is symbol of the sky . It shows that Sakyamuni is as great and high as the sky . On his forehead , you can see a glass ball which is called the the Eye of Wisdom . The mirror behind his head is known as mirror of brightness . Around the mirror are seven small images of Buddha , they are images of Sakyamuni before he got enlightenment , so one of them is Sakyamuni himself . The ear-lopes of Sakyamuni is big and long .It’s 1.3 meters long . The long ear-lope in China is symbol of longevity. The position the Buddhist believers’ mind, lotus symbolizes of purity because lotus emerges from the mud in the pond but keeps unstained , and also it’s said lotus was the nation flower in ancient India so that Sakyamuni had that flower for the Buddhism . Sakyamuni was the prince of an ancient Indian kingdom namedGautama .It is said that the moment Sakyamuni was born nine

dragons appeared in the sky, spraying water onto him to give

him a good shower. Sakyamuni was able to walk and talk immediately . he took seven steps into each of four directions and , with one hand pointing to the sky , the other pointing to the earth, said: From the heaven to the earth ,I am the most respectful. At each step he took , Iotus flowers emergedfrom the ground to meet his feet . As you know , Iotus is the symbol of the purity . As legend says that Gautama,s mother became pregnant when she was dreaming that a saint riding an elephant into her body . And Gautama was born from the right side of his mother in a park named Lumbini. Gautama was leading a very good life but one day he realized that the pleasure of life would eventually disappear and that one would finally get old , fall sick and die . He became very upset . Consequently , he left his home and family and spent six year searching for enlightenment .

In the following 45 years, he traveled across central India

preaching .He was called Sakyamuni ,meaning “saint of the Sakya”. Sakya was the name of a clan in northern India in the mid-sixth century BC.