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| Keywords: Wo-foh-sze Monastery, Yuen Ming Yuen.jpg Through China with a camera At the monastery of Wo-foh-sze or the Sleeping Buddha we found a resting-place for the night The old Lama here was complaining of bad times There was not enough land he said to support the establishment and that though every monk enjoyed a yearly grant of twelve taels equal to about £3 10s of our money from the Peking Board of Rites But of late years there have been but few of the members of the Imperial family to bury ” a ceremony for which this establishment receives a fee of some 300 taels A remarkably beautiful place was Wo-foh-sze; and the quarters of the monks there though furnished with the usual simplicity were wonderfully clean and well kept zh 臥佛寺 between 1871 1872 https //archive org/details/throughchinawith00thomrich Through China with a camera Creator John Thomson PD-old-70 Images from Through China with a camera Photographs of Beijing by John Thomson Wofo Temple Beijing Bixi in Beijing | ||||
