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| At the rear of the Pavilion of Ten Thousand Happinesses stands a 18m-tall statue of the Maitreya Buddha carved from a single piece of white sandalwood, a gift from the seventh Dalai Lama to the Qianlong emperor in 1789, taking three years to transport from Tibet to Beijing. |
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