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Puning Temple and the Wooden Bodhisattva of Chengde

Puning was finished in 1759, four years after Qing armies defeated the Dzungars. Its halls combine Chinese and Tibetan plans, and its main pavilion holds a gilded wooden Avalokiteshvara assembled from five kinds of timber, 110 tonnes in weight and more than twenty metres high.