Statue of the Sakyamuni at the Grand Hall of the Great Sage 大雄宝殿
The Grand Hall of the Great Sage 大雄宝殿 in the Lingyin Temple is the largest hall in this complex. The three storey hall houses one of the significant Buddhist figures here. The hall suprisingly wasn’t very crowded inside. Sure there were people there but it wasn’t like the whole of Hangzhou City was there. The hall houses that statue of Sakyamuni or more commonly known as Siddharta Gautama who would later be elevated to the status of Buddha.
Statues Around the Grand Hall of the Great Sage 大雄宝殿
Now, the statue of Sakyamuni is a bit of a puzzle as it was carved relatively recently in the 1950s. It is a wooden statue covered in gold and it is considered the largest wooden statue of Buddha in China. Interestingly the hair of the status has a bluish tinge, I not sure what it means though. But he looks like all the other sitting Buddha statues I have seen in this part of the world, the one it most resembles is probably the one in Lantau Island in Hong Kong.
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