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callous indeed, if he hoped to go straight through from
end to end without a pause. Four corridors with gold-
beamed roofs make the square o f the edifice under which
the Buddha is enthroned. The exterior o f it, now o f
masonry carved as intricately as wood, rises in diminishing
stages to a spire, and the whole fabric is overlaid
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fvith gold. False as the workmanship may be, meretricious
as ÿou would say it is, to work in brick and
mortar as if it were wood, hybrid as is the architecture,
nothing can detract from the splendour o f this gold.
Outside, where the unimpeded sun flames on the roof
o f the temple, all is dazzling, almost blinding light -r
within, in the long corridors, there is a cloistral gloom,
and in the innermost sanctuary there would be dark-
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