Buddhist

房山区: 京石高速 琉璃河口下往西走
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This temple is extremely ancient, having originally been built in 631CE, although Japanese forces are blamed for its destruction in the 20th century. For the…

海淀区苏家坨镇北安河乡
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In the summer of 1866, Dà Jué Sì superseded the Temple of the Azure Clouds at what is now Fragrant Hills Park as the summer retreat of the pompous British attaché…

石景山模式口东北
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The point of visiting this temple, other than its rather pleasant quiet obscurity, is that it was completed in 1443 and, despite having lost some of its halls, has…

门头沟
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The Ordination Terrace Temple is another very pleasant complex built up a leafy hillside but on an east-west axis, with views across assorted scenery. It has the best…

门头沟区东南部潭柘山
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There’s an unpleasant start, passing the corpse of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, once Běijīng’s biggest polluter, and accompanying chemical plants and other…

阜成门内大街25号
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Time was when monks would greet foreigners who wandered into this closed but active temple and take them to meet the hospitable, multilingual, and much-travelled…

石景山区, 潭峪路
Working but deserted rural temple overlooked by giant Buddha head
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