Friday, July 11, 2014

Temple of Fusion X Seagull & Sakura Season: KunMing Spring Excursion

Yuan Tong Temple 圓通禪寺

oldest temple in KunMing

can be traced back as long

Tang Dynasty, dated 1,200 years

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the architecture is unmistakably

really classically oriental yet

the statues aren’t really so

a little mixture of Tibetan colors and

the bronze statue of Buddha is

more declined to be associated with

IndoChina’s Theravada style

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and there’s a Theravada

IndoChina Buddhist hall in there

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the garden is kinda impressive

the feeling of being surrounded by

pool of calm water yet

interconnected with civilization and

human intelligence

haha I don’t know what am I

trying to describe, here

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can’t help but to throw back that

I was right in time for

the blooming sakura too

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and walking down the main road

all the way to the Green Lake 翠湖

for the Siberian seagulls who

stop by during winter-spring season

I doubt they understand Mandarin

yet I have low proficiency for

any European languages except

the one I am typing with right now

so? wassup

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