{"id":13301,"date":"2012-10-02T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:19:54","slug":"china-meets-herself-2-buddhist-rites-at-jing-an-temple__kong-shiu-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13301","title":{"rendered":"China Meets Herself (2)&#8211; Buddhist Rites at Jing An Temple__Kong Shiu Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tradition and Passage<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/P1020941_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13302\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/P1020941_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could a Buddhist temple, established at the time of the Tree Kingdoms (247 AD), be standing and thriving in the center of Shanghai today?<\/p>\n<p>To seek the answer one needs to pass through West Nanjing Road, the old British Concession, to see the gold pillars and tilting roof corners in the midst of a forest of the glass-front sky scrapers. The Temple Jing An \u975c\u5b89, meaning serene comfort, has a name that tells its lasting and respected presence in China\u2019s most flamboyant metropolis, nick-named, once upon a time, \u2018The Paradise of Daring Explorers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/764-china-meets-herself-2-buddhist-rites-at-jing-an-temple-kong-shiu-loon\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition and Passage\u00a0 Could a Buddhist temple, established at the time of the Tree Kingdoms (247 AD), be standing and thriving in the center of Shanghai today? To seek the answer one needs to pass through West Nanjing Road, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-sl-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13306,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}