Rongbuk Monastery or Rongphu is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, Dingri County, Xigazê Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. According to Michael Palin, it now houses thirty Buddhist monks and...Read More

A-Ma Temple situated on the southwest tip of the Macau Peninsula, is one of the oldest and most famous temples in Macau. Built in 1488, the temple is dedicated to the goddess of seafarers and fishermen Matsu. The name Macau is thought to be derived...Read More

The Baima Temple in Luoyang, Henan Province, was the first Buddhist Temple in China. It is said that one night in the year A. D. 64, Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) dreamed of a golden man 12 feet high, and the light from the...Read More

Xi'an Stele Forest is in Sanxue Street in the southern part of Xi'an City, Shanxi Province. It used to be where the Wen Temple was, but now it has become Shanxi Provincial Museum. Its name comes from its huge collection of steles, reminiscent of a...Read More

Nanhai God Temple, situated at Miaotou Village in the Huangpu District of Guangzhou, is the only temple left from the four ancient Sea God Temples of China. It is of important value in the study of foreign trade in the ancient China as Guangzhou...Read More

Jiming Temple was founded nearly 1,500 years ago during the Liang dynasty, when the emperor ordered the construction of "Tongtai temple" atop Jilong hill. Tongtai, which means "unity then peace" was a phrase borrowed from the Sanskrit Buddhist...Read More

Linggu Temple is an archaized structure in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Linggu Pagoda was built in 1929 to memorize those soldiers. The 9 stories pagoda stands 60.5 meters high. Speeches made by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and epigraphs of Chiang Kai-Shek...Read More

Han Mausoleum, also called the Mausoleum Museum of Prince Guangling in Han dynasty, is among the key tourist attractions in the Shugang-Slender West Lake Scenic Spot. It is also a state-level AAA tourist attraction. The mausoleum mainly displays the...Read More

On Mount Yulaishan, on the east bank of Minjiang, can be seen the imposing Temple of the Two Kings (Erwang Miao), built in the Qing period (1644-1911) on the ruins of an earlier 6th C edifice. Statues of the creators of the irrigation system, Li...Read More

Duihui Temple is a Buddhist temple with a history of more than 1,500 years (591 A.D.). The temple is only a Buddhist temple that faces the north in comparison with other Buddhist layouts unanimously facing the south direction. The temple was...Read More