A modern stele in the temple grounds.
Written in Chinese characters starting
in the top right corner and reading
down, and then to the left.  Although
these "standing signs" sometimes look
they are made of "steel", they are
stone slabs, the black ones probably
of some kind of Chinese black granite,
with the characters carved and then
usually painted.
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