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The site is located on the way from the Visitor Center to Lingyun Chan Temple. The environment is peaceful and elegant. It is an ancient, stone-built, two-story building constructed in 1925 by Master Benyuan as a place for quiet cultivation and Buddhist teachings. The building is mostly made of Guanyinshan stones. The round-roofed structure may be modeled after ancient Indian Buddhist architecture. The square structure is a Western-style building. The arched windows on the second floor are a mix of Chinese Minnan-style architecture and Western architecture. It reflects the significant influence of Japanese-Western architectural styles on the construction of the Kaiyuan Temple. Inside the temple, there is a lifelike stone-carved Buddhist statue wearing a kasaya and holding a bowl. The base is engraved with the name "Hua Shan Yuan Fa Huang". In 1926, devotees from the Kansai region of Japan donated 33 stone-carved Guanyin statues. On Guanyinshan, they built the "Taipei Xiguo 33 Guanyin Sacred Sites". These 33 Guanyin statues represent 33 incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the human world, which can be in the form of a man or woman, old or young. Following Japanese convention for "West 33 Sacred Sites", they added a statue of a monk wearing a kasaya and holding a bowl. This represents Fa Huang of Huashan, who advocated the "33 Sacred Sites" belief. The site is not far from Lingyan Pavilion and both were places for Buddhist teachings and quiet cultivation. Therefore, it is nicknamed "Sub-Mother Temple". Currently, it is privately owned by the temple and not open to the public.