This spacious hall was used for gathering of the monks and daily
sermons of Chief Monk.
At Jaulian, the original monastery seems to have embraced only the
court of cells and the assembly hall, all the other chambers being
later additions.
The assembly hall is too spacious to be spanned by timbers from side
to side, pillars had to be erected in it to support the roofbeams.
In the assembly hall the existing bases show that there were four such
pillars disposed in a square in the middle of the hall, the
architraves above them being laid probably in a corresponding
square with diagonals from each pillar to the nearest corner of
the room.Walls of the assembly hall subjected to the extensive
repairs in the later period.
