This national treasure is emplaced in the splendid Deda Zizai Kwan-yin Hall. The Statue, inlaid with Sakyamuni Sarira and Buddhist relics, is 3.8 meters high, costing over 100kg of gold, 120 carat of South African diamond, thousands of pieces of rubies, sapphires, emeralds, corals, boulders, pearls and more than 100kg of jade. Total value of the sculpture is estimated at RMB192 million. It is a rare sculpture which carries national traits and spirit of the times, and an unprecedented treasure in the history of industrial arts and Buddhist sculpturing arts. On Nov. 27, 1998, "Gold & Jade Kwan-yin statue" was recognized as the largest of its kind in the world, and was collected by Guinness in 1999. In 2001 on its purifying ritual, 108 pieces of metal Buddhist relics were found from within of the sculpture, which marks auspiciousness of the Buddhism.

Gold & Jade KwanYin Statue

Kwanyin wears hat ornaments on her head and jade-like stones on her chest. The hat ornaments, on which a white jade Buddha sites at the center of more than 400 grains of diamond and aquamarine, with brilliant diamond and viridian emerald lotus reflecting splendor on each other, is resplendent and dazzling. Also the jade-like stones on her chest, which are decorated with turquoise, red coral and crude pearl, are extraordinarily colorful.

Kwanyin has a grand, smiling and infinitely merciful face, which always favors all living beings. On her forehand, a rare starlight ruby with a diameter of 15 millimeters is inlayed, with a pair of emerald eardrops overhanging on both sides.

Kwanyin has 8 hands with elegant gestures and lively fingers, each of which holds a musical instrument, including one white lotus hand used for achieving various merits, one Juansuo hand used for securing all living beings, one precious arrow hand used for blessing good companions to encounter earlier" The bracelets on Guanyin"s wrists are decorated with 80 grains of ruby and sapphire and nearly 100 grains of diamond.