Detailed Work on a Vase at the Sutra Library 藏经楼 at the Lingyin Temple 灵隐寺

By this time I was already getting temple fatigue. My friend who has been just pushing through everything in the Lingyin Temple, only stopping once in a while to look at something interesting. I won’t be surprised if she wasn’t jaded from seeing all these temples and halls. I have been to numerous temples in China and, honestly, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one from the other. The fourth hall of the Lingyin Temple was a reconstruction of the old one. There were originally five halls as is the standard design for temples.
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