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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. 099:
The Temple of the Warring Monks (11:47 min)

Let's look at a place that was once headquarters for an army of warring monks, Mii-dera on the shores of Lake Biwa and--more significantly--at the base of Mount Hiei, in this episode of--

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Ep. 098:
A Touch of Tibet in Old Chang'an (14:45)

Four days after returning from the first leg of my "Chinese Pilgrimage," I was standing in front of the Terracotta Army, one of China's highest-rated tourist destinations. In just three days we would visit this as well as four temples from my list. Come visit the first one in this episode of--

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Ep. 097:
Stone Mountain Temple (9:51 min)

I have been twice to beautiful Ishiyama-dera, Shiga Prefecture's "Stone Mountain Temple." Learn about both visits in this episode of--

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Ep. 096:
The Temple of the Jade Buddha (5:38 min)

Jade Buddha Temple, the last temple I saw in Shanghai, is the home of several magnificent (you guessed it) jade Buddhas. Let's visit them in this episode of--

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Ep. 095:
The Temple among the Rocks (7:58 min)

Another temple, another mountain. Iwama-dera (also called Shoho-ji, meaning "Correct Dharma Temple") is located at an altitude of 1280 feet, which accounts for the misty atmosphere on the January day in 2001 when I visited. Come and see in this 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. 093:
The Upper Ghee Temple (11:38 min)

When you visit Daigo-ji in Kyoto, you get two--or even three--temples for the effort of one. Find out what I'm talking about in this episode of--

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Ep. 092:
Yuanming Lecture Hall (7:43 min)

When is a temple not a temple? When it's an office building in the parking lot of a hotel! You'll see what I mean when we visit the Yuanming Lecture Hall in this episode of--

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Ep. 091:
Uji's Mimuroto-ji and Byodo-in (8:20 min)

Sometimes a pretty little temple leaves the visitor with pretty little to say. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness, let's pay a quick visit to Mimuroto-ji in Uji--and one of its much more famous neighbors--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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