page_title: Lingyin Temple
section_title: Hall of the Five Hundred Arhats
hierarchical_section_title: Lingyin Temple / Architecture / Hall of the Five Hundred Arhats
caption_attribution_description: English: Buddha at the Grand Hall of the Great Sage in Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, China
context_page_description: Lingyin Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Chan sect located north-west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The temple's name is commonly literally translated as Temple of the Soul's Retreat. It is one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, and contains numerous pagodas and Buddhist grottoes.
  The monastery is the largest of several temples in the Wulin Mountains, which also features many grottos and religious rock carvings, the most famous of which is the Feilai Feng.
context_section_description: The Hall of Five Hundred Arhats (五百罗汉堂; Wǔbǎi Luóhàn Táng), also a modern addition, faces onto the western side of the courtyard in front of the main hall. The building has a complex floor plan, shaped like a Buddhist swastika. Along the arms of the swastika are arranged the five hundred arhats as slightly larger-than-life bronze statues. Each statue is seated on a unique ornate seat. At the centre, where the arms  of the swastika join, stands a bronze canopy housing statues of four bodhisattvas representing the four cardinal directions. This is currently the tallest solid bronze structure in the world.
caption: The Shakyamuni Buddha statue at the Mahavira Hall.
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