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Temple Tales Newsletter and Podcast
By James Baquet AKA The Temple Guy
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The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.
Temple Tales Newsletter and Podcast episodes:
October 20, 2020Ep. 100: The Temple of the Sleeping Dragon (8:05 min) In the splendor that is Xi'an, Wolong Temple barely registers on most itineraries. Yet, it's called "the oldest temple in Shaanxi Province"! Let's take a look in this landmark 100th episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more October 16, 2020Ep. 099: The Temple of the Warring Monks (11:47 min) Let's look at a place that was once headquarters for an army of warring monks, Mii-dera on the shores of Lake Biwa and--more significantly--at the base of Mount Hiei, in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more October 13, 2020Ep. 098: A Touch of Tibet in Old Chang'an (14:45) Four days after returning from the first leg of my "Chinese Pilgrimage," I was standing in front of the Terracotta Army, one of China's highest-rated tourist destinations. In just three days we would visit this as well as four temples from my list. Come visit the first one in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more October 09, 2020Ep. 097: Stone Mountain Temple (9:51 min) I have been twice to beautiful Ishiyama-dera, Shiga Prefecture's "Stone Mountain Temple." Learn about both visits in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more October 06, 2020Ep. 096: The Temple of the Jade Buddha (5:38 min) Jade Buddha Temple, the last temple I saw in Shanghai, is the home of several magnificent (you guessed it) jade Buddhas. Let's visit them in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more October 02, 2020Ep. 095: The Temple among the Rocks (7:58 min) Another temple, another mountain. Iwama-dera (also called Shoho-ji, meaning "Correct Dharma Temple") is located at an altitude of 1280 feet, which accounts for the misty atmosphere on the January day in 2001 when I visited. Come and see in this episode of--
TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more September 29, 2020Ep. 094: Shanghai's Temple of Tranquility and Peace (8:56 min) Check out the changes wrought at Shanghai's Jing'an Temple--the Temple of Tranquility and Peace--in the two-and-a-half short years between my visits in August of 2009 and again in January of 2012, in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more September 25, 2020Ep. 093: The Upper Ghee Temple (11:38 min) When you visit Daigo-ji in Kyoto, you get two--or even three--temples for the effort of one. Find out what I'm talking about in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more September 22, 2020Ep. 092: Yuanming Lecture Hall (7:43 min) When is a temple not a temple? When it's an office building in the parking lot of a hotel! You'll see what I mean when we visit the Yuanming Lecture Hall in this episode of--TEMPLE TALES!
FULL Show Notes at Substack...more September 18, 2020Ep. 091: Uji's Mimuroto-ji and Byodo-in (8:20 min) Sometimes a pretty little temple leaves the visitor with pretty little to say. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness, let's pay a quick visit to Mimuroto-ji in Uji--and one of its much more famous neighbors--in this episode of--
TEMPLE TALES!
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FAQs about Temple Tales Newsletter and Podcast:
How many episodes does Temple Tales Newsletter and Podcast have?
The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.