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Si, also called Jingangzuo Sheli Baota, is seated in Wuta
Jie, the southeastern part of the old town. It is the
only remaining part of the Cideng Temple (Cideng Si).
As
Jinggangzuo Sheli Baota has five small square-shaped dagobas
on its top, it is named Wuta Si. The fifty-two feet tall
temple is decorated with glazed tiles. The lower part
has many designs related to Buddhism and Jingang Scripture
written in Mongolian, Tibetan, and Chinese. More than
one thousand small but exquisite gold-plated figures of
the Buddha are molded in upper tiers.
The
most valuable stonecutting is the one carved on the northern
wall. It is the only astronomical map annotated in Mongolian
ever discovered in the world.
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