Badachu Trip

Badachu is in Beijing but it will take you an hour or two - subway and two bus rides to be exact - to get there.

Badachu means Eight Great Sites, and refers to the eight Buddhist temples and monasteries that can be seen scattered across Cuiwei, Pingpo and Lushi hills at the base of Beijing's Western Hills Scenic area.


We were fortunate that it was a sunny and clear day plus there were not much people in the park so it was a nice day to get strained from climbing and walking the whole stretch of the park.
They shouldn't have called it a park as it's frikkin' huge to be able to house eight Buddhist temples.

I swore not to go to any temples unless inclined or forced because of friends visiting me here but I made an exception as these last few weeks have been really boring for me - no money to actually go out of town.
Unfortunately, we were a week late from witnessing the leaves turning red. We just had to settle for whatever leaves were left attached to the trees.

Three sites in the park that are crowd drawers are the Lingguang Temple - where the famous Stupa stands majesticall, the golden fish pond, the heart sutra and arhats wall can be seen; Dabei Temple - where the eight lifelike arhats can be seen inside the Hall of Mahavira; and Xiangjie Temple. Yeah, too much temples to last me a lifetime.


We caught this group moving the whats-it in front of the temple so travellers can light incense and say their prayers to Buddha.

They say lighting incense and kneeling is a sort of communion to be one with Buddha.


This is what they call Golden Fish pond where carps swim and it is said that the Buddhist practitioners used the pond to release captive animals. They say that there are over one hundred goldfish which was first bred here from 1851 to 1862.

This is a replica of the Buddha in Meditation (Samadhi) at Sri Lanka which was presented by the Sri Lankan president to China.

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