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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Ep. 100:
The Temple of the Sleeping Dragon (8:05 min)

In the splendor that is Xi'an, Wolong Temple barely registers on most itineraries. Yet, it's called "the oldest temple in Shaanxi Province"! Let's take a look in this landmark 100th episode of--

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Ep. 094:
Shanghai's Temple of Tranquility and Peace (8:56 min)

Check out the changes wrought at Shanghai's Jing'an Temple--the Temple of Tranquility and Peace--in the two-and-a-half short years between my visits in August of 2009 and again in January of 2012, in this episode of--

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Ep. 090:
Shanghai's Temple of the Dragon Flower (9:07 min)

Come along with me and visit Longhua Temple, the largest ancient Buddhist temple in Shanghai, in this episode of--

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Ep. 089:
A Small Hall and a BIG Buddha (7:46 min)

Number 9 on the Saigoku Pilgrimage is a single hall in a formerly-great but these-days-diminished temple in Nara. It also happens to be a fifteen-minute walk from Todai-ji, home of Japan's largest statue of the Buddha. We'll visit both--plus one more--in this episode of--

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Ep. 088:
Shanghai's "Incense Pavilion" (7:32 min)

Shoving off from my digs in Beilun, I at last moved from this trip's first base to its second and last, a hotel in the Jing'an district of Shanghai, where I visited one of the most precious little temples I saw in all of China, the "Incense Pavilion." Join me in this episode of--

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Ep. 087:
The Other Hase Kannon (6:18 min)

Do you remember the Great Kannon at Kamakura's Hase-dera from Episode 048? Well, let's visit the scene of the rest of the story, the original Hase-dera Temple down south, in this episode of--

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Ep. 086:
Ningbo's Temple of Seven Pagodas (6:50 min)

Let's visit the new-but-lovely Qita Temple, the "Temple of Seven Pagodas," in central Ningbo, China, in this episode of--

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Ep. 085:
Oka-dera: The Temple on the Hill (6:56 min)

You can get to the temple in Asuka officially named Ryugai-ji just by saying, "Oka-dera"--the Temple on the Hill. Let's do it in this episode of--

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Ep. 083:
Tsubosaka-dera, a Taste of India in Japan (7:36 min)

Come join me for a little "taste of India"--right smack dab in Nara, Japan! in this episode of--

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Ep. 080:
Dharma Rain Temple (5:51 min)

Let's pay a visit to the temple the name of which has impressed me more than any other. If my karma ever results in my being allowed to found a temple of my own, it, too, will probably be called Fayu--"Dharma Rain." I'll explain in this episode of--

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Ep. 079:
Sefuku-ji, the Kansai Pilgrimage's Most Remotest Temple (9:58 min)

Come along as I visit one of the most remotest temples on the Saigoku pilgrimage--these days, at least. Let's visit Sefuku-ji in Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture, in this episode of--

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Ep. 078:
Puji, Putuoshan's Primary Temple (9:09 min)

On the morning of my last full day on the island, I finally entered the gates of Puji, as we'll see in this episode of--

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Ep. 077:
A Temple on the Powder River (7:24 min)

Let's continue on down the pilgrim's path from Kimii-dera and visit Number 3 of Japan's Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage in this episode of--

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Ep. 076:
The Temple of Aiding Wisdom on Putuo Shan (8:29 min)

Back in Episode 056 we visited the Nanhai Guanyin area of Putuoshan in Zhejiang Province. Let's continue that day's touring and drop in on Huiji Temple, the third of the 142 key temples I visited in China, in this episode of--

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