This is one main building of Buddhism Four Continent. It stands on the back slope of the WanShou Hill in Summer Palace in Beijing China. This group was laid out and arranged in accordance with Buddhist cosmology. Aside from a main shrine and structures embodying the Four Continents, there are eight towers representing Minor Continents. The shrine is surrounded by four Lamaist pagodas and between the major and minor continents, there two platforms representing the sun and the moon.
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