In Datong's Hunyuan county, the towering Hengshan Mountain cradles the Xuankong Temple, or the Hanging Temple, which appears delicately suspended against a nearly vertical cliff face, as if supported ...
At very rear of the temple is a sutra repository built against a cliff. On the western side are rockeries, pavilions and mountain vegetation; all contribute to the beauty of the garden-like setting.
Rising abruptly above the North China Plain in central Shandong ... The Grand View Cliff (Daguanfeng) north of the temple is inscribed with an essay by Emperor Xuan Zong of the Tang Dynasty ...
or the Hanging Temple, which appears delicately suspended against a nearly vertical cliff face, as if supported by only 30 pillars. Up close, one can see how ancient wisdom ingeniously enables the ...