The ceiling from the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, at first sold to a coffin-maker, was acquired by Laurence Sickman in 1930 for the newly founded Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The ceiling is carved cypress wood with gold leaf, showing dragon design carved in relief.
The structure of the ceiling is composed of three main sections that recede upward and inward toward the middle: 1) the outer square-shaped section, 2) the octagonal section in the middle, and 3) the circular section in the center. The square and octagonal sections are assembled of separately carved parts that fit together around the central circular section that is shaped from a single large piece of wood. The wood surface has a soft golden color and was original gilded, though the gilding is only partially preserved.