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No. 113: Kaifu Temple, Changsha, Hunan

(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on November 17, 2014.)

Another form of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, this Thousand-Armed Guanyin
(千手观音) is at Kaifu Temple (开福寺), Changsha, Hunan (湖南. 长沙市).

August 12, 2012 - Having moved my base to Changsha, I visited Kaifu Temple, formerly the site of a king's palace. Ma Yin declared himself King of Chu far back in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which followed the glorious Tang Dynasty.