Jul 5, 2009 – The Hanging Monastery, Jinlong Canyon, Shanxi Province, China – Christian Kober

The Hanging Monastery, Jinlong Canyon, Shanxi Province, China – Christian Kober / Photolibrary

• These Chinese temples were built into sandstone cliffs around 460 AD.
  They hang over 150 feet off the canyon floor
• Not all Chinese monks spent their days sitting quietly before statues of the Buddha.
  Watch how the Shaolin monks passed the time
• You don’t have to retreat to a temple carved into a cliff face to meditate your way to inner peace.
  Meditation can happen anywhere
• The Hanging Monastery is just a few miles from the former capital of the Wei dynasty.
  It’s just outside Datong