Close-up of a Tibetan prayer-wheel

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#133 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China ( Ta'er Si Buddhist Temple near Xining, Qinghai)

September 1st 2011
This is Part III of my summer visit to the Province of Qinghai, China's 4th largest province, surrounded by the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Xinjiang and Tibet. In TravelBlog #131 we visited the wonderful and largest of China's lakes, known as Qinghai-lake. In TravelBlog #132 we experienced the Great Mosque of Qinghai's capital, Xining. This TravelBlog #133 takes me (and y ... read more

Asia » China » Qinghai » Ta'er Si Buddhist Temple

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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