Zhenjue Temple
Ming-dynasty diamond-throne pagoda of five carved stone towers rising from a Buddha-covered platform.
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Zhenjue Temple in Beijing tells of a monk who arrived from India in the early fourteen hundreds carrying five gold Buddha statues and a design never before built in China, a plan that sat unused for decades until construction finally finished in fourteen seventy-three under the Chenghua Emperor. The guide walks the platform's five stone towers and more than fifteen hundred carved Buddha figures, Sanskrit letters, elephants and lions, and points out a pair of stone footprints said to belong to the Buddha himself.
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