Aside from Tiger Hill, Cold Mountain Temple (寒山寺; Han shansi) was one of the three Buddhist sites we went to visit while on the trip, and the most interesting out of the three as it was a still-active Buddhist monastery. Above: the Chinese character for Buddha and what I think is Guan Yi, a very famous female Bodisattva.
Even though the temple made for some great pictures and was a great place to visit, I realized one peculiar thing about how the People's Republic handled religion: "You can practice freely, because if you didn't how would we be able to entertain the rest of the people?"
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