Outside the Main Temple Building of the Putuozongcheng Temple 普陀宗乘之庙

The Main Temple Building of the Putuozongcheng Temple is the most imposing structure in the temple complex. The wall is brick red in color and stands a least six stories high. Although there a places where windows might have been there is a suprising lack of it. I would think that the building itself would be quite dark because of this. I wonder why. At the foot of the temple are a few vendors who hawk Buddhist articles. It was pleasantly surprised by the organization of the vendors that I would sometimes forget that there were there.

There were a few burning areas where sacrifices were made, but this seems to only be a exhibit rather than the real thing. It really does seem to be a dead temple here. It feels more like a museum than a temple. There were stairs which lead to the inside of the main temple building and as expected it was indeed very dark. Not much light gets here since there was a lack of windows. Visitors need to be careful here since it is very easy to lose your footing in the darkness.

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