No. 88: Luohan Temple, Chongqing

(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on February 17, 2014.)

Two of the 500 arhats (五百罗汉) after which Luohan (Arhat) Temple
(罗汉寺) in Chongqing (重庆) was named. They are all exquisite.

June 14, 2012 - In June of 2012 I found myself in the central Chinese city of Chongqing, formerly known as Chungking. This hilly metropolis is located on a peninsula where the Jialing River coming down from Gansu meets the Yangtze on its way from the glaciers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all the way across China to Shanghai on the East China Sea.