Pilgrim introduction: The gate tower of Ramoche Temple is three stories high, with a spacious open outline on the ground floor. There are 10 large columns (diameter 0.8 meters) in the clear outline, all of which are sixteen prisms. There are three copper hoops on the column body, with flower petals carved on the surface. The upper half of the column is carved with intricate patterns of flowers and plants, and the capital is embossed with orbs, "Hui" character patterns, petals and the continuous "Six-Character Mantra". The pillars of the first four rows of large columns are embossed with sea water, clouds and dragon patterns. On the wall at the back of the Mingkuo are painted the Four Great Vajras (i.e. the Four Heavenly Kings) and the Six Paths of Reincarnation (the picture shows a brown and ferocious King Ming holding a huge wheel, with huge fangs holding the upper part of the wheel; the big wheel is divided into On the third floor, snakes, doves, pigs, etc. are painted in the center of the circle. The inner wheel is divided into six grids, namely the six paths. The outermost layer has twelve pictures, called the "ten branches of dependent origination": ignorance, formation, consciousness, name and form. , six bases, contact, feeling, love, grasping, existence, birth, old age and death), pictures of the Paradise and other murals; the second and third floors of the gatehouse are the monk's room and sutra hall.

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