Stupa in the Yellow Temple [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the stupa and gateway in front of the Huang si or Yellow Temple. For a detail of the sculpture on the base of the stupa, see print 32.
Wan Fo Ssu — Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a courtyard towards the main building of the (?)Wanshou si, the outer walls of which are covered with niches containing Buddha images.
Approach to the Pei Hai [Winter Palace, Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a graceful stone bridge towards the stupa rising on the hillside beyond: 'A bridge called the Yü ho Ch'iao divides the North Sea or Pei Hai from the Middle Sea or Chung Hai of the Winter Palace. From the east end of that bridge a smaller one ...
The sculptured base of the stupa — Yellow Temple [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the base of the stupa in the Yellow Temple (Huang si), erected in memory of the Panshen Lama, who died smallpox during a visit to Beijing in the late 18th-century: 'The monument is modelled on Tibetan or Indian lines and stands 30 feet...
Lung Wang T'ang [Dragon King's Temple, Western Hills]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the temple buildings of the Longwang tang or Dragon King's Temple, set among woodland in the Western Hills (Xiang shan) north-west of Beijing.
Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills, near Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the terrace of the Jade Cloud or Azure Clouds Temple (Biyun si), with a priest in the foreground contemplating the hills beyond.
Marble sentinel — Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a marble stupa on the terrace of the Biyun si (Jade Cloud Temple or Temple of the Azure Clouds), with a monk standing in contemplation.