Travel Blog Photos from luoyang, Henan, China (308)
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... the Longmen Caves. The White Horse Temple was built when the Song Dynasty moved from Kaifeng to Luoyang and is supposedly one of the oldest temples in China. We were there on Tomb Sweeping Day, so it was full of Chinese people worshipping and paying ...
... Luoyang was the center of gravity of China. In AD 68, the White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China, was founded in Luoyang. The temple still exists, though the architecture is of later origin, mainly from the 16th century. An Shihkao was ...
... adventures of the famous Monkey who accompanied the Tang Monk, Hsuan Zhang on his journey to India to bring Buddhist texts back to China. Once the action started, it took us a while to get used to the high pitched singing style, but we soon started to ...
... incense sticks. Some grandmothers were teaching toddlers the rituals of worship. It was quite moving to see, after all the upheavals that China has gone through. We took a stroll through the market area of the old city - very buzzy and busy, with lots of ...
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