por pedroceinos | Jun 14, 2025 | travel
Buddhist Immersion from Shanghai: No Need to Board a Plane—Paradise Is Right at Your Doorstep Buddhist Immersion from Shanghai: No Need to Board a Plane—Paradise Is Right at Your Doorstep Residents of Shanghai eager to learn more about Buddhist art and history often...
por pedroceinos | Jul 2, 2024 | bai, ethnic-groups
Sexual aspects of Gu venom Gu illness resulted from a contamination by gu poison, which a recent analyst has characterized as “an alien evil spirit which entered [the] body and developed into worms or some similar animal that gnawed away at the intestines or...
por pedroceinos | May 11, 2024 | ethnic-groups, Naxi, travel
The five secret temples of the lamas in Lijiang The five secret temples of the lamas in Lijiang Religions of Lijiang Although the city of Lijiang is known primarily for the Dongba religion practiced by the traditional shamans of the Naxi, also called Dongba, who with...
por pedroceinos | Abr 23, 2024 | bai, ethnic-groups
The Local Lords cult of the Bai nationality The worship of the Local Lords (benzhu) is the most characteristic of the Bai people. Their religious life revolves around the Benzhu temple of each village, as each village venerates a local lord, sometimes a historical...
por pedroceinos | Mar 28, 2020 | travel
The Temple of the soul retreat in Hangzhou in 1930s On the left side was a densely wooded rocky hill. Its steep slope was carved into fantastic figures of unicorns, leogryphs and other mythological animals, and statues of gods and saints. They had been fashioned out...
