DAILY PHOTO: Warrior Figures Inside a Taoist Temple, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: Happy Valley Buddhist Temple [a.k.a. Shedup Choepelling Gompa]

DAILY PHOTO: Chikkaballapur Adiyogi

DAILY PHOTO: Sri Hari-Harapura Kauravakunda Betta Temple

DAILY PHOTO: Sri Adinarayana Swami Temple

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Someshwara Temple of Halasuru [Bangalore]

DAILY PHOTO: Temple, Church, & Goats in Halasuru

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DAILY PHOTO: Temple on Blissfulness Hill

Kailasa of Ellora [Blank Verse]

They carved a temple in a mountainside,
Cutting away all rock that wasn't temple,
Chipping from the top down and outside-in,
Until some domed stone segregated sky
From inner sanctum and all its idols,
And it has stood over twelve hundred years,
And it will surely stand twelve hundred more,
But someday it'll be a mountain again.

“Reply to Caishu’s ‘Ancient Temple by a River'” by Mei Yaochen [w/ Audio]

Old trees with tangled hanging tassels
by a deserted temple open to the river.
Rain, rain threw down the clay statues
and wind blew down this ancient building.
Wild birds nest in dusty shrines,
fishermen hold a bamboo lottery cup.
About to play the tune "Mountain Ghost," I stop:
the Verses of Chu make me too sad.

Translation: Barnstone, Tony and Ping, Chou. 2005. The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary. New York: Anchor Books.