The only shrine to four-armed Kwan-yin in the world

（People's Daily Online） 08:06, March 19, 2013

A photo of the Four-Armed Avalokitesvara bodhisattva in Guanyin Temple in Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan A autonomous region, southwest China's Sichuan province. (Photo source: Chinanews.com/ An Yuan)

The only temple that hosts the shrine to the Four-Armed Avalokitesvara bodhisattva in the world is located in Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan autonomous region, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The temple was built in the seventh century and attracted Tibetan Buddhism worshipers all around the world ever since.(Gao Yinan)

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