Sha Tin

10,000 Buddhas above Sha Tin in the New Territories. It's a small Buddhist temple built atop the sloping hill side in 1957 by the Venerable Yuet Kai (月溪法師, Yue Xi). The golden Buddhas line the walk to the temple top, which includes wonderful sculptures of various Buddhist dieties. The Buddhas on the path are life-size and feature different faces and different positions and facial expressions. They smile down on your as you sweat your way through the sticky moist air on your way to the temple. Where there are in fact 12,085 Buddhas. I travelled with five other students and we had tea [hóng chá​, 红 茶] and soft drinks in the Buddhist canteen.

It's wonderful; the spiritual life of Chinese is a far greater and different flow through their life. The worship of their ancestors and their children, so it is more linear [zuótiān​, jīntiān​, míngtiān​, 昨天，今天，明天］than Western based spiritualities, where by a hierarchy is based on top to bottom with different levels attaining a closeness to God.