Pusading is reached by climbing 108 stone steps from the centre of Taihuai. At the top sits one of the most striking monastic compounds on Mt. Wutai — a Tibetan-Buddhist monastery built in the Qing dynasty by the Mongol and Manchu emperors who patronised the mountain. The architecture follows the Han Chinese palace idiom with Tibetan-Buddhist religious content; the result is a uniquely hybrid building, with carved white marble panels, yellow imperial-tile roofs, and red columns more familiar from the Forbidden City than from a Buddhist temple.
Inside, the halls house substantial gilded Tibetan-style statues, the apartments where the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors stayed during their pilgrimages, and a small but interesting collection of imperial calligraphy from the Qing court. The terrace at the front gives one of the best high views of the central Taihuai valley, looking straight down on the Great White Pagoda. Combine with Luohou Temple immediately downhill on the same ridge.