China Cultural Chronicles December 26, 2012
- A rainy day on the Canals, Zhujiajiao near Shanghai, China
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- Terra Cotta Horses
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- Terra Cotta Warrior
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- Ornamentation
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The Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery (also known as the Twin Groves Temple) is a large Buddhist temple complex situated in the Toa Payoh district of Singapore.
We were keen to visit this temple as my parents had done so back in the 1960s, though little of the present structure was recognisable from their photos since the complex has been greatly enhanced and expanded since the 1970s, all in traditional Chinese style. There were a few items here we did recognise though in the sculptures of the main prayer hall (where photography is no longer allowed) and the curious painted wooden dragon-fish hanging in a minor corner, that had intrigued me in one of the old 60s slides (I'd been determined not to leave till we'd found that, despite arriving so close to closing time!).
Today the surroundings of the temple seem rather unsympathetic, with concrete apartment blocks of Toa Payoh's extensive housing estates and a busy main road closing in on the complex from all sides.
www.shuanglin.sg/aboutus.html - Lujiazui in Pudong, Shanghai.
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- Lujiazui in Pudong, Shanghai.
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- Lujiazui in Pudong, Shanghai.
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- Lujiazui in Pudong, Shanghai.
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- At Sunrise in Shanghai
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