On Saturday 23 Sep, the lot of us attending dharma class made a trip to 西山 to view the Buddha tooth relic. 

Waiting for our van transports to arrive… L-R  Jinyao and Weilie

西山八大处, located in the western sub-urbs of Beijing, is named after 8 temples built on these mountains. 

Kena Sai… literally. 

Everyone assembling in front of the ticketing entrance.

 

觉舫师父leading the way to 灵光寺. Pretty crowded coz it’s a Saturday. 

觉舫师父explaining certain buddhist concepts to us while we queue to view the buddha tooth relic. 

We’re almost there! L-R: Ronghui, Meiying, Jinyao, Junyuan, Weilie and Me! 

After viewing the buddha tooth, we made a trip round certain spots in 灵光寺. This is where they incribed the heart sutra on the wall. 

That’s the queue I went through just a few moments ago, they were particularly stringent about what you could bring in, which explains the metal detector. By the way… we were in the queue for approx 1.5 - 2 hours. 

The buddha tooth relic pagoda in its full glory. 

 

Finally back in the van and making our way to Tsinghua Tech Park 天厨妙香 for our long awaited vegetarian lunch.