The Second International Conference on the We were all up early in the morning, amid many complaints about the cold (come to Edinburgh, and you'll know cold), and after a short walk and a train journey, we arrived at the top of the mountain, at 2500 metres, to wait for the sun...
After dawn on the mountain, it was back down to the hotel for breakfast, and then a walk through the forest park, by some amazing trees, including some reckoned to be over 2000 years old, and some a lot younger. The forest park covers 1400 hectares...
...and hides a number of delightful surprises. Coming upon Elder Sister Pond, so still - two sisters who both loved the same man drowned themselves, each in their own pond, rather than break the others heart...
...and then a beautifully laid, paved path winding down through the trees...
...and there, Tse Yun Temple, I'd been filled with such expectations of a typically fabulous building with such wonderful carved and painted exterior details - dragons and gods and sages and children...
Wow! The attention to detail in these temples is fantastic. I took loads of photos, these are just a few. The cast iron incense burner at the front of the temple with its dragons and bats, filled the air outside with a rich fragrance, leading you down to the basket ball pitch that the temple stands before.
Inside, a second burner added to the heavy smoke, making auto focus difficult for my poor little camera!
I could have spent all day in the forest, but all too soon, it was time to move on...