text: Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva , 3.3 m ( 11 ft ) high , with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms ( extravagantly known as a thousand arms ) wielding bells , wheels , and lotus flowers .
  
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  The gold-plating on the Kannon Bodhisattva has partially fallen off .