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Putuo Mountain – Buddhist Sacred Land Superlative China

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July 12th 2017
Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang is known as one of the four great Buddhist paintings in China including Shanxi, Myshan, and Anhui. From the city of Hangzhou, tourists take the highway 92 through the city of Ningbo, then through a ferry to Putuo Mountain with a journey about 260 km, and it takes about 4 hours . This is a small island with an area of 13 km2, known as one of the most majestic scenery l ... read more

Asia » China

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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