Still Mind Zendo’s Zen Ancestors tour of China September 2012

Our guides

Bill Porter Si Meng

We traveled by bus, plane, and high-speed train… … climbed many, many stairs… … and turned the dharma wheel (a.k.a., the Lazy Susan) at every meal… Shanghai Nanhua monastery - Huineng

How ordinary Chinese interact with Zen temples Huineng's true body monument to Empty Cloud

Yunmen temple

the nunnery next door city temple where Huineng first recited the Platform Sutra Guangxiao city temple, where Huineng became a monk and spoke “the wind and the flag”

Bodhidharma’s Hualin temple, in Guangzhou

Arhat hall Jiufeng nunnery (Moshan) the meditation hall, where we sat the practice of giving and receiving gifts Huangbo’s place (Linji)

Huangbo stupa nearby Baizhang monastery tea plants

Mazu’s place

Buddhist academy academy library Matsu burial stupa Abbott: “Take the dharma to America, where it’s needed.” 4th ancestor temple, Daoxin guest quarters… “Go wash your bowls.” the Luhua nunnery

5th ancestor temple (Hongren) the two wall verses, commemorized the story of Huineng

rice pounder The abbot gives us bowls that say, “The robe and the bowl are transmitted from person to person.” 3rd ancestor temple (Sengcan) “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences…“ (Sengcan)

cave of transmission

Ashoka temple

Riujin temple (Dogen)

Dharma hall – no images of Buddha Jihua mountain (Dizang Bodhisattva)

Yellow Mountain

Orchid Pavillion

Shanghai art museum

shopping area Some people we met along the way…

A glimpse of modern China… Yangtze River and smog

But in the end… … just this.

(the end)