Introduction to Han Shi Hall: Han Shi Hall is located in the Sutra Collection Building. The roof of the building is decorated with stories about characters from "Journey to the West". There are statues of Han Shan and Shi De in the middle of the hall. Among them, Hanshan holds a lotus branch and a pure vase that he found. He wears clothes and bares his chest, smiling and amusing, looking festive and lively. Behind the statue is a stone carving of the Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara, with the seal script "Exhibiting Thousand-Hand Eyes" written by Shi Yunyu, the number one scholar in Suzhou during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The left and right walls of the hall are inlaid with the Vajra Prajnaparamita Sutra written by Zhang Jizhi, a calligrapher of the Southern Song Dynasty.

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