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3)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 Budd ha 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 b lue 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 . Sak yamun i was the p rince o f an ancient Ind ian k in gdo m na medGautama .It is said that the mo ment Sak yamun i was bo rn nine drago ns app eared in the sk y, sp ray ing water o nto him to give him a good sho wer. Sak yamun i was ab le to walk and talk immed iately .he took seven steps into each o f fo ur d irectio ns and , with o n e hand po int ing to the sk y ,the o ther po inting to the earth, said: Fro m the heaven to the earth ,I am the mo st resp ectfu l. At each step he too k , Iotus flo wers emerged fro m the gro und to meet h is feet . As yo u k no w , Io tus is the symb o l o f the p urity . As legend says that Gautama,s mother became pregnant when she was dreaming that a saint rid in g an elep hant into her bo d y . And Gautama was bo rn fro m the right sid e o f his mo ther in a park named Lumb in i.Gautama was lead ing a very goo d life b ut o ne d ay he realized that the p leasure o f life wo u ld eventually d isapp ear and that o ne wo uld finally get o ld , fall sick and d ie .He became very up set . Co nseq uently , he left his ho me and family and sp ent six year searchin g fo r en lightenment . In the fo llo wing 45years,he traveled acro ss central Ind ia preaching .He was called S ak yamun i ,meaning “saint o f the Sak ya”. Sak ya was the name o f a clan in no rthern Ind ia in the mid-sixth century BC.