I decided to stay at the Buddhist monastery, and things got busy after making that choice. A daily schedule was created that started with morning chanting at 4:30 am and ended with silence throughout the monastery and lights out at 10:00 pm, or whenever I finished my Chinese homework, whichever Read more…
After a forty minute car ride back into the city we parked in front of a skyscraper. I couldn’t see the top of it because there was so much fog in the air. Zoltan, the two westerners that I shared a cab with, and I followed the nun, whose organization Read more…
Bing, bing, bing. Gong. Bing, bing… These are the sounds that surround me. I’m in a shiny temple with massive statues towering over me. None of them look like the Buddha from the donut shops. I’m holding a small blue book in my hands, and I’m not sure if it’s Read more…