Jile Temple

I finally made it back to Jile Temple after far too long. It's always such a lovely, peaceful place. (Although there must have been a holiday or an exam coming up, there were more people running around burning incense than normal!)

My favorite of the Temple's pagodas.

You can just barely see the ferris wheel of the Harbin Cultural Park (formerly Harbin's Novoye Cemetery) peeking out from behind the trees.

Jile Temple in the Snow

One of the beautiful gateways to Harbin's Jile Temple, made even lovelier by all the snow.

Monastery Meets Modernity

A picture of one of the entryways to a courtyard of Harbin's Jile Temple with the ferris wheel of the neighboring Harbin Cultural Park - formerly Novoye Cemetery, one of the burial grounds for the city's Orthodox Christians - in the background. It was a bit surreal to be in such a quiet, peaceful place and yet still at various points be able to see the apartment buildings and ferris wheel towering above its walls!