Wutaishan is one of the five holy mountains in China. It is the residence of the Buddhist heavenly creature called Avalokitasvara. I have forgotten his Chinese name, but the whole city of Wutaishan just waits for Buddhist pilgrims and is full of monasteries. At first a glance of the surroundings, once from a lamaist monastery and the large picture is taken above the 108 steps of the Nanshan (Southern Mountain) Monastery.
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First we visited a Lamaist monastery:
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Then a Buddhist monastery:
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After that we visited the Baita (White Pagoda) Monastery, unfortunately the Pagoda was just renovated. So we could not take pictures.
Then there was the Opera Monastery, in which I also did not take pictures. The next two were a monastery founded in the 1920s on left and the Nanshan Monastery, of which you see the entrance on the right.
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The next and last stop of the day we did at the Longquan (Dragon Spring) Monastery:
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The next day we went to Taiyuan, which took us about four hours. Just to have something completely different, we visited there the Jin Ci, a daoist temple.
Just for your information: The nicely looking guardian sculpture is about ten meters high. Do not try to mess things up with him.
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