Premise: Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as a thousand arms ) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers.

Hypothesis: The gold-plating on the Kannon Bodhisattva has partially fallen off.
Relation: neutral