shaolin chan arts-金沙1005

there is a wooden niche with a built-in sitting statue of maitreya inside it whose statue is mellow and full with one bag in his hand, bare-chested. the statue of maitreya buddha is usually placed at the mahaviro hall by chan and pure land schools, which has gradually become a fixed mode. the former statue had been destroyed during the cultural revolution period and the present statue was remade in 1980, designed by song shufan.