No. 34: Guangjiao Temple, Nantong, Jiangsu

(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 3, 2012.)

A small courtyard (院) on the hill near Guangjiao Temple (广教寺) in Nantong, Jiangsu (江苏, 南通市)

July 27, 2010 - I have developed a practice of doing the most difficult or far-flung temples first when I reach a city. So the morning of my first day in Suzhou, I boarded a bus to Nantong and its beautiful Langshan, where I took a cable car up to Guangjiao Temple.