The statues of Arhats in the Baosheng Temple are located in Magongchang Lane, Luzhi Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City. They were listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level by the State Council of China in 1961.
The Baosheng Temple was opened to the public after the establishment of the museum to protect the cultural relics of Baosheng Temple. It was built in the twenty-six year of the Reign of Emperor Qianlong (1761) in the Qing Dynasty and repaired in 1974. Either side of the gate stands a stone lion, while on the eastern section there is a sign tablet. They are all well preserved.
The museum is 14.4m wide and 14.6m deep, having a gable and hip roof with single eave. However, its inner style is Romanesque. There are 9 statues of Arhats survived in the back walls of the museum. The wall, with statues on it, is 9.50m wide, 5.70m high (the height of Sumeru seat is 2m), and 1.45m deep. Mountains, clouds, stones, trees, caverns and seawater are the things that form the huge background of the wall. 9 statues of Arhats are located irregularly but well-proportioned in caverns, each of which shows a sitting posture, with a height of 88-125cm and a width of 60-88cm. The overall design is quite chic. All the Arhats are sitting among serried mountains and cloud waves, which is absolutely a grand wall painting of figures with a landscape background. As a nice work of integrating realism with vivid description, the statues of Arhats in the Baosheng Temple, with a high-grade style of art and carving level, are the reflection of excellent creative talent of the ancient sculptors.
