Introduction to the Brahma Building: The Brahma Building is located in the southeast corner of the temple, echoing the Jing'an Pagoda. Carved from a single piece of granite stone from Yixian County, Hebei Province, it is 18 meters long, 2.1 meters in diameter and weighs 160 tons. The front of the Buddhist building is engraved with the four characters "The True Dharma Lives for a Long Time" written by Master Huiming, the abbot of Jing'an Temple, and the back is engraved with a part of the Diamond Sutra written by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty; the upper part of the stone pillar is cast with 16 tons of white copper and gilded on the surface to represent the Buddha's sermons and the lion's roar. Roaring lion statues on all sides. There is a Dharma wheel on each side, which means that the Dharma wheel is always rotating and the Buddha's Dharma is spread in all directions. At the junction of the four Dharma wheels, there are four animals, including lions, horses, elephants and oxen, representing the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest respectively. The base of the Buddhist building is a white marble fence, on which are engraved stories of the birth and sermons of the Buddha.

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