One Person Monatery

by wenhousecrafts.com

One Person Monastery

10 June 2008

Master Miaofang at Pumen Monastery
普门寺护持妙方尼师

In Beijing's newly developed finacial centre Chaoyang district (朝阳区), there is a humble monastery with a plate on its wall since 1984 signifying its noble status as a protected heritage site.

Under the huge pressue from many quarters to redevelope the site for profitable commucial use, this tiny and rundown Buddhist monastery holds the ground firmly and refuses to cease its existence.

The strength that supports the monastery's quiet yet persistant presence comes from a single person, a nun in her advanced age of seventies.

While this genuine follower of the Buddha fights an one-person's courageous battle for the survival of this ancient monastery, she graciously lives a simple life consisted of doing extensive meditation and eating vegetables she scavenged from the bins in food market.

(Source of info: 洗尘, bskk.com; photo: 首席民工)

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Along the highway from Guizhou to Sichuan there is an overpass, and under the overpass there is a residential building block that has been miracurously preserved while constructing the highway.

The positive site to live there is that you'll never get wet. And the negative site? You won't get much sunchine either.

(Source of original photo: 钟桂林)

Yellow River No Longer in Yellow

It is said that it would be a miracle if the water in China's Yellow River changes to a colour other than yellow. But now the miracle seems to have occured.

In its Hukou Fall section (壶口瀑布), China's second biggest waterfall located in Shaanxi province, since April this year the water has turned transparently clear, well, almost.

(Source of info & photo: xinhuanet.com)


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