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Longxing Temple, Zhengding

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Longxing Temple and the cabinet that turned the sutras

At Zhengding, north of Shijiazhuang, a Sui foundation became one of the great Song temple complexes of northern China. Its Mani Hall keeps 127 bracket sets and eleventh-century frescoes, its Dabei Pavilion holds a bronze Guanyin cast in 971, and one two-storey hall was built to house a revolving library.