Restoration efforts underway at the Pingwu Bao’en Temple in Sichuan

Originally, the Pingwu Bao'en Temple was built to rival the beauty and grandeur of the Forbidden City, but it was never wise to try and one up the emperor.Aerial view of the Pingwu Bao'en Temple [Credit: Ren Yin]"The museum has dozens more gongdou (a type of corbel used exclusively in imperial structures) than the Forbidden City," said Ren Yin, associate curator of the Museum of Pingwu Bao'en Temple."Altogether, it has 10,000...
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