The temple consists of 11 temple palaces and halls in three compounds. Arranged along the central axis from the south to the north are the stage, the temple gate, the Heavenly King Hall, the Sakyamuni Hall, the Main Hall of a Buddhist Temple, and the Buddhist Patriarch Hall. Arrayed in the halls are the 1,600-odd almost intact painted sculptures, big and small, left from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). There are various kinds of sculptures such as ordinary sculptures, relieves and suspended sculptures, including figures, landscapes, animals and flowers, vivid and vigorous, all having their respective features. The best ones are the Jingang (Buddha's warrior attendants), the Heavenly King, arhats, Kwanyin (Goddess of Mercy) and the consecrators.

Besides, the murals left from the Ming Dynasty in the Daxiong Baodian, the Thousand-Buddha Hall and Bodhisattva Hall, the Chinese Scholar tree left from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the stele left from the Song Dynasty (907-1279), the bell left from the Ming Dynasty and the ancient architectures are all rare art treasures of the temple.

The Shuanglin Temple is said to be the treasuses of ancient painted sculptures. There are 10 temple halls, 2052 painted sculptures left from Ming Dynasty(1368-1644). The value of cultural relic and ancient art history was the reason that made the Shuanlin Temple to be well-known.

The most representative works are the 14 arhat sitting scupltures with pretty realistic face expression on, impressed every single one to see them.

The Four Deva-King was set in Deva-King Shrine..
You can see them in a very close distance, it feels way much pressures than other places.

It's very odd that all 26 hands of this Kwan-yin are on the same plane, no matter you see from any angle or direction.