Introduction to Xixia stone carvings: On the stone wall of the cliff in front of the temple, there is still a stone carving of the Buddhist "Six-Character Proverb" of "Om Mah Ni Bo Mi Hum". The stone carving is "six-body characters" and contains a line of Xixia characters. It is initially determined that it was carved during the Xixia period. The text is 2.4 meters above the ground. The area occupied by the text is 1.8 meters high and 2.4 meters wide. It is incised and written horizontally from left to right. There are two squares in total. Each line has 6 characters and the size of each character is about 20 centimeters. There are four lines in total on the left side: from top to bottom, the first line is Pasiba script, the second line is either Mongolian or Uighur script, the third line is Xixia script, and the fourth line is Chinese script. There are two lines on the right side, with the upper line in Sanskrit and the lower line in Tibetan.

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