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Lots of buildings that looked like this  
   

Lots of buildings that looked like this

With statues of various Buddhist gods inside that people were praying to.
Yonghe Gong, Temple of Confucius, Relaxing

June 19th 2010
Today was our first group field trip. We went to Yonghe Gong (雍和宮) which was a palace that the Qianlong emperor then had converted into a monastery. A lot of Buddhists from Mongolia and Tibet met here. Qianlong had statues and stuff of his ancestors in the palace and then entrusted them to the monks which was a symbolic gesture that did a lot to incorporate people from Mongolia and Tibet ... read more
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