|
|
|||||||
| Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
06-28-2006, 12:46 PM
|
#1 |
|
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
6/28/2006: Hanging monastery
 I've never seen this before and so it was remarkable to me. And since there isn't even a Wikipedia entry for this amazing landmark, found in the Shanxi province, maybe a lot of you haven't seen it. Not hanging, literally, but cantilevered into the side of this rock face is the Hengshan hanging monastery. Says here the monastery dates back over 1400 years to the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, most of what you see today are reconstructions made during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties.  Well at least they put in a handrail. Who's first up those 700-year-old stairs? |
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 12:51 PM
|
#2 |
|
lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
|
The pavilion to the far right is roughly 15 stories off the ground? I'm getting queasy just looking at this.
(for the record, I am afraid of falling, not of heights. Once I am assured that I will not plummet to my death (like going to the top of the CN Tower), I really enjoy myself. I get equally queasy on small stepstools and steep curbs)
__________________
  wolf eht htiw og"Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 12:55 PM
|
#3 |
|
Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
Posts: 7,013
|
Wow - that's really cool... reminds me of the Anasazi cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde.
__________________
Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good. |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 12:56 PM
|
#4 |
|
I think this line's mostly filler.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 13,575
|
When I grow up, I want my house to look just like that.
Or maybe the IntelSat building. I'm not sure yet.
__________________
_________________ |...............| We live in the nick of times. | Len 17, Wid 3 | |_______________| [pics] |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 01:00 PM
|
#5 |
|
erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
Posts: 6,127
|
Mmm, musta missed that one. I'll add it to the list.
It's hard to hit 7000 years of history and landmarks in three years.
__________________
not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 01:09 PM
|
#6 | |
|
Gone and done
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 4,808
|
Quote:
__________________
per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not. |
|
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 01:36 PM
|
#7 |
|
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
Wow.
|
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 03:01 PM
|
#8 |
|
I lurk with the best of them
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: not close to philadelphia. :( well, not THAT close.
Posts: 146
|
...Why?
|
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 03:13 PM
|
#9 |
|
Wearing her bitch boots
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Floriduh
Posts: 1,181
|
Awesome. I want one just like it!
__________________
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 03:13 PM
|
#10 |
|
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
They look a little leery of the railings.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 03:38 PM
|
#11 |
|
When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
Posts: 12,719
|
Is that bird shit streaking the sheer cliff faces above?
__________________
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 04:40 PM
|
#12 |
|
Blatantly Homosapien
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 6,200
|
Prolly don't have to worry about privacy.
Great pics and informative links too. Thanks. And yes, I had to. I pressed the fart button. I doesn't fart.
__________________
Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please. |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 04:45 PM
|
#13 |
|
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
|
Hmmmm... some of the quarries around here might yield similar sheer rock walls...
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis |
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 04:56 PM
|
#14 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Just beautiful... thanks for the post.
|
|
|
|
06-28-2006, 06:15 PM
|
#15 | |
|
Blatantly Homosapien
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 6,200
|
Quote:
__________________
Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
Linear Mode
