This is a record of my eighteenth trip to visit the 142 Key Temples of China. Links lead to articles on the temple (or other site) named.
Showing posts with label Hubei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hubei. Show all posts
No. 105: Guiyuan Temple, Wuhan, Hubei
(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 8, 2014.)
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| The Library (经堂) at Guiyuan Temple (归元寺), Wuhan, Hubei (湖北, 武汉市), is imposing. |
August 4, 2012 - With today's temple, we start another trip, one that took me through the provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan.
No. 106: Baotong Temple, Wuhan, Hubei
(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 15, 2014.)
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| The ancient Hongshan Pagoda (洪山宝塔) stands on the mountain behind Baotong Temple (宝通寺), Wuhan, Hubei (湖北, 武汉市) |
August 4, 2012 - After lunch in Guiyuan Temple's vegetarian dining hall, I boarded a local bus and waved out the window as I passed Wuhan's famed Yellow Crane Tower. Originally built in 232 CE, it is now a 1985 reconstruction a kilometer away from the original site.
No. 107: Yuquan Temple, Dangyang, Hubei
(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 22, 2014.)
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| Discarded Arhats (罗汉) at Yuquan Temple (玉泉寺) in Dangyang, Hubei (湖北, 当阳市) |
August 5, 2012 - The morning after visiting Guiyuan and Baotong Temples, I took a train from Wuhan to Yichang for a daytrip to Yuquan Temple. This required a bus from the train station at Yichang back to Dangyang, and from there I hired a local driver to take me up to the temple.
No. 108: Wuzu Temple, Huangmei, Hubei
(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on September 29, 2014.)
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| This is the stupa (塔) of the Fifth Patriarch (五祖) of Chan (Zen = 禅), on the mountain behind Wuzu Temple (五祖寺), Huangmei, Hubei (湖北, 黄梅县). |
August 7, 2012 - In July of 2012, I had visited most of the important sites in the life of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen). I had been to Xinxing, where he was born and died, and where his parents were buried. I went to Dajian Temple in Shaoguan, where he preached the Platform Sutra, and to Nanhua Temple near the same city, where he taught for many years, and where his effigy remained. I also had visited smaller sites rumored to have been places where he meditated. Even before that, I had been to Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou, where he had actually been ordained.