In the early Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, builders in Yunnan raised the Great Buddha Monastery, also known as Jinshan Temple or Rulai Temple. Located at No. 483 Zhongping Road in Huize County, this north-facing, three-entry courtyard complex spans 2,708.55 square meters. It stands as one of the Four Great Temples of Huize, linking three distinct architectural sections: the central monastery, the Fire God Temple to the east, and the Niushi Ancestral Hall to the west.

Inside the rear main hall, the Daxiong Baodian, sits a masterpiece of gratitude. Jiangxi woodcarving artisans, housed by the monastery while they built the nearby Jiangxi Guild Hall, carved a massive backing screen from three pieces of red fir. Known as "Yiguang," this screen features a central Ruyi mirror surrounded by carved wooden flames and seventeen gilded miniature Buddha figures. The scent of the red fir and the gleam of the gold leaf remain preserved behind the main Shakyamuni Buddha statue.

The monastery's walls have absorbed centuries of shifting human purpose.To the west, the Niushi Ancestral Hall, covering 1,723.9 square meters, contains a cool, semi-circular crescent pond and a brick-carved screen wall. On May 2, 1935, during the Long March, Red Army Commander Luo Binghui and Political Commissar He Changgong walked past this pond to establish their military headquarters inside the ancestral hall.

Decades later, the temple served a different utility. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Huize County Grain Bureau managed the premises, storing grain where monks once chanted. This period of heavy agricultural use left the Guanyin Hall and the side chambers in ruins. In 2002, the Great Buddha Monastery Management Group raised funds to reconstruct these lost structures, later assuming management of the Niushi Ancestral Hall in 2003. Protected as a Yunnan Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit since 2012, the complex preserves these layers of religious devotion, artistic labor, and revolutionary history.