The only shrine to four-armed Kwan-yin in the world (5)

（People's Daily Online） 08:12, March 19, 2013

Exterior of the Kwan-yin Temple in Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Region, southwest China's Sichuan province. It is the only temple that hosts the shrine to the Four-Armed Avalokitesvara bodhisattva in the world. (Photo source: Chinanews.com/ An Yuan)

The only temple that hosts the shrine to the Four-Armed Avalokitesvara bodhisattva in the world is located in Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan autonomous region, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The temple was built in the seventh century and attracted Tibetan Buddhism worshipers all around the world ever since.

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