6/28/2006: Hanging monastery

Undertoad · 06-28-2006, 12:46 PM

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, 12:46 PM	#1
Undertoad 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?

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