is wonderful. Full of statues
and paintings of the life of the Buddha
and an amazing, tranquil garden full of birds,
it feels like a holy place rather than a palace or museum like the sites in Beijing. It is once again a practicing monastery; the monks returned after the Cultural Revolution.
Here’s the monk who founded it, Xuan Zang, who also inspired the classic novel of the Monkey King, Journey To the West, which I’ve been reading on the Kindle, and which has proven vaguely reminiscent of our present adventure ”Monkeys are born naughty ad they could not keep quiet for a single moment until they had work themselves out moving thing around.”
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