Temple Tales Newsletter and Podcast

By James Baquet AKA The Temple Guy

Thrilling accounts of one man's journey to over 700 sites in Japan and China, with plenty of Buddhist teachings thrown in... more

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September 15, 2020 Ep. 090: Shanghai's Temple of the Dragon Flower (9:07 min)
Come along with me and visit Longhua Temple, the largest ancient Buddhist temple in Shanghai, in this episode of--

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September 11, 2020 Ep. 089: A Small Hall and a BIG Buddha (7:46 min)
Number 9 on the Saigoku Pilgrimage is a single hall in a formerly-great but these-days-diminished temple in Nara. It also happens to be a fifteen-minute walk from Todai-ji, home of Japan's largest statue of the Buddha. We'll visit both--plus one more--in this episode of--

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September 08, 2020 Ep. 088: Shanghai's "Incense Pavilion" (7:32 min)
Shoving off from my digs in Beilun, I at last moved from this trip's first base to its second and last, a hotel in the Jing'an district of Shanghai, where I visited one of the most precious little temples I saw in all of China, the "Incense Pavilion." Join me in this episode of--
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September 04, 2020 Ep. 087: The Other Hase Kannon (6:18 min)
Do you remember the Great Kannon at Kamakura's Hase-dera from Episode 048? Well, let's visit the scene of the rest of the story, the original Hase-dera Temple down south, in this episode of--

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September 01, 2020 Ep. 086: Ningbo's Temple of Seven Pagodas (6:50 min)
Let's visit the new-but-lovely Qita Temple, the "Temple of Seven Pagodas," in central Ningbo, China, in this episode of--

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August 28, 2020 Ep. 085: Oka-dera: The Temple on the Hill (6:56 min)
You can get to the temple in Asuka officially named Ryugai-ji just by saying, "Oka-dera"--the Temple on the Hill. Let's do it in this episode of--

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August 25, 2020 Ep. 084: The Temple of King Ashoka (12:28 min)
Let's continue our day trip in the eastern outskirts of Ningbo, and visit Ayuwang Temple, said to possess an authentic relic of the Buddha's skull! For reals? Come along and find out in this episode of--

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August 23, 2020 Ep. 083: Tsubosaka-dera, a Taste of India in Japan (7:36 min)
Come join me for a little "taste of India"--right smack dab in Nara, Japan! in this episode of--

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August 18, 2020 Ep. 082: Tiantong Temple, Chinese Fount of Japanese Soto Zen (8:04 min)
Two temples in (or near) the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, in one day? Yes, please! We'll cover the first one in this episode of--

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August 14, 2020 Ep. 081: Temple of the Kudzu Well (5:59 min)
Fujii-dera, named for the arrowroot or kudzu vine, is found at the end of a shopping street in a suburb of Osaka. Learn more about it in this episode of--

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