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2. Xishan Mountain Temple, Guilin, China; 108 Temples of Asia by Martins Ate (Vedatrac 2)
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Today we got up and since we are up - have been walking all day through temples and streets and shops. We found a nice vegetarian place in Guilin - right next to Buddhist temple.
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By the way - about Buddha - in Hinduism it is believed that Buddha is the 9th Avatar of Vishnu, or more widely knows as Krishna.
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We did prayers in every temple we went to. But more today I wish to write about Xishan park mountain temple. So all temple is an underground cave system in one of the mountains and its all underneath the ground.
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Between many Buddhas and Rakshas drawn on the walls, the passages leads deap deap under ground, with a cold air inside and some pure mountain stream which collects here and there into small bowls of water from where monks can drink.
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Top of mountains are covered with tracks and small praying places with pictures and drawings of Buddha.
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We did our prayers for happiness of everyone in this temple. We hope you are as happy as we are! And then we wished a happiness also to the fishes in a lake:) by giving out food for them :)
Hare Om