Tin-Kay:<br><br>Happy to hear that you are back home now with many wonderful memories.<br><br>Han Shan Temple is not just a place of worship. It holds a unique...
Han Shan, the learned monk in charge of the Han Shan Temple, was a great poet as well.<br><br><br>According to the description I read,<br>The stone pedestal ...
Some Chinese words are very similar in writing, but are entirely different.<br><br>The first word means knife. What's the other word?<br><br>In writing ...
Dear Ming, SL & Friends<br><br>I am posting some photos of Shaolin Temple at Songshan in the Henan Province near Luoyang and Zhengzhou. When I first read of ...
Tin-Kay and friends:<br>Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, was most instrumental in elevating Chan Buddhism as it is known today. But he was...
Feng Gan was the Master Monk who established and made Hanshan Temple famous.<br><br>He wrote one poem in support of the famous poem of Hui Neng, the sixth ...
Tin-kay posted some photos of ancient Chinese<br>compasses for Omabi before.<br>I came across an article by Susan Silverman who gave some detail descriptions ...
i am new here, i am a Chinese boy. i am looking for foreign pen pals being interested in chating about everything you like, useing English, Chinese or pinyin,...
Dear Tin-Kay:<br>There have been fake paintings, antiques, etc. for a long time. I have books devoted to the subject.<br>As long as there are poeple who buy...
Thanks Tin-Kay & Ming! I forwarded the fish compass illustration to Nicolas, the artist who works with me and the Smith website proved to be very helpful. Our...
Julian:<br>Thanks for the confirmation that ShiDe is on the left of both pictures.<br><br>I just received a small book on Hanshan Temple from Tin-Kay, which...
Dear Ming,<br><br>There are many stories about HanShan and ShiDe and their previous lives and after lives. The following are some of the stories:<br><br>1. ...
Dear Ming,<br><br>you should have added a third character which is "ting3" (sorry don't have it available on my system - composed of ¤g and the ¤H stroke...