Laba Congee Festival, Warm Up to Chinese New Year
A month-long Chinese New Year Festival Season begins with a bowl of nuts-rich congee consumed on lunar December 8.
Laughing Buddha
About a thousand years ago, there was an itinerant Buddhist monk named Qici (契此) wandering around in the area on…
A Song Dynasty Ashoka Tower
In the year of 1011 during the Northern Song, a brand new 9-storey Buddhist pagoda was complete in Nanjing, in…
A Magic Ancient Chinese Mirror
Shanghai Museum houses tens of thousands of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, but only four that have a “semi-transparent” quality, and…
A Revolving Library
In China’s Sichuan Province there are two rocky hills hosting a temple accommodating both Daoist and Buddhist faiths. In this…
8 Major Chinese Buddhist Sects
There are two kinds of travellers: One knows where to go and one doesn’t. The one who knows his destination…
Complete Enlightenment
This is A Thousand Buddhas Hall (千佛殿) in Lingyan Temple (灵岩寺) in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province in…
A Brief Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Temples
A classic Chinese Buddhist temple is typically a building complex consisting of several courtyards as shown in the illustration below.…