Detailed Work on a Vase at the Sutra Library 藏经楼 at the Lingyin Temple 灵隐寺
By this time I was already getting temple fatigue. My friend who has been just pushing through everything in the Lingyin Temple, only stopping once in a while to look at something interesting. I won’t be surprised if she wasn’t jaded from seeing all these temples and halls. I have been to numerous temples in China and, honestly, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one from the other. The fourth hall of the Lingyin Temple was a reconstruction of the old one. There were originally five halls as is the standard design for temples.
Buddhist Figure at the Sutra Library 藏经楼 at the Lingyin Temple 灵隐寺
The Sutra Library merely houses some significant Buddhist artifacts, there is no Buddhist statue here unlike the other halls. However, this is not to say there wasn’t anything worth seeing here. The Sutra Library has been turned into something like a museum. Naturally, there were numerous manuscripts which I couldn’t understand. The Chinese language used back then was quite different from the modern Chinese that is now used in the country. It is a fair bet that the current generation will not be able to understand these either. Aside from manuscripts, there were also small Buddhist figures and even large vases.
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