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Lingyen Mountain Temple is a Buddha-making factory. You are wise after all, and have the virtuous roots that have brought you to the temple to take the precepts. The temple is a Buddha-making factory, but you need to be willing to undergo the carving. Carving involves being hit and chiseled with an axe. There is certainly suffering to be endured, but without enduring the pain of carving, how will you become a perfect Buddha statue that is revered by tens of thousands of people? All Buddhas take suffering as their teacher.