A lion on each side of an entrance is a very popular feature in the Forbidden City and there is a couple here too, at the Lama temple. Even though they both have manes, this one is a female. You can tell them apart because the female is holding down a cub (and the male, a ball.)
The protector of the Buddhist scriptures
An incense burner
This statue symbolizes the center of the world. At the bottom is hell, in the middle the dwellings of the humans and at the top, paradise. You can throw coins and, if you hit it paradise, you might make it there (we failed.)
The Buddha of the present
Incense burning in one of the courtyards
An altar to a weather god
The lower leg -- this is all we could get of the 18-meter tall Buddha without stepping in, since photos aren't allowed inside.
Buddhist monks admiring the Tibetan Buddha statue
A lion on each side of an entrance is a very popular feature in the Forbidden City and there is a couple here too, at the Lama temple. Even though they both have manes, this one is a female. You can tell them apart because the female is holding down a cub (and the male, a ball.)
The protector of the Buddhist scriptures
An incense burner
This statue symbolizes the center of the world. At the bottom is hell, in the middle the dwellings of the humans and at the top, paradise. You can throw coins and, if you hit it paradise, you might make it there (we failed.)
The Buddha of the present
Incense burning in one of the courtyards
An altar to a weather god
The lower leg -- this is all we could get of the 18-meter tall Buddha without stepping in, since photos aren't allowed inside.
Buddhist monks admiring the Tibetan Buddha statue
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