Friday, 5 May 2017

Lingyin Zen temple in Hangzhou

Lingyin si is a Zen monastery in the hills around the West Lake in Hangzhou. It is amazing how quickly the monasteries have been restored after the orgy of destruction during the cultural revolution. In the hills around Hangzhou there are several monasteries and nunneries. Interestingly in one of them a nun gave me a book in English by Sheng Yen, a Taiwanese Zen master whom I met many years earlier in Taipei.










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