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Brightly colored flower beds in full bloom at Yuyuan Tan Park
Yuyuan Tan Park
Miaoying Temple White
5 7
Dagoba (Baita Si)
MAP A3 • Xisanhuan Lu •
Subway: Military Museum • Open MAP C3 • 171 Fucheng Men Nei Dajie
Dec–Mar 6:30am–7pm daily; Apr, • 6616 6099 • Subway: Fucheng Men
May & Sep–Nov 6am–8:30pm; Jun– • Open 9am–5pm Tue–Sun • Adm
Aug 6am– 9:30pm • Adm Celebrated for its tall, Tibetan-style
Lovely Jade Lake Park is at its most white dagoba (stupa), this temple
beautiful during cherry-blossom dates to 1271, when Beijing was
season. Rent a boat and traverse under Mongol rule. The temple
the massive lakes, go for a is also noted for
swim, or grab a snack its fascinating
from the food stalls and collection of
have a picnic – unusually thousands of Tibetan
for Beijing – on the grass. Buddhist statues.
Lu Xun Museum
Military Museum
6 8
of the Chinese
MAP C3 • 19 Gong Men
People’s Revolution Kou Er Tiao, off Fucheng Men
MAP A4 • 9 Fuxing Lu Nei Dajie • 6616 4168
• 6686 6244 • Subway: • Subway: Fucheng Men
Military Museum • Open • Open 9am–4pm Tue–Sun
8am–5pm daily • Adm Lu Xun is regarded as the
(ID required) father of modern
Vast halls of Cold War- Statue in Miaoying Chinese literature,
era hardware, including Temple White Dagoba responsible for such
lots of silvery fighter
planes and tanks,
fill the first floor of this interesting BUDDHISM IN CHINA
military museum. Upstairs has Buddhism started in India and probably
exhibitions on historic conflicts, came to China along the Silk Road. The
including the Opium Wars and Boxer earliest sign of the religion is linked to
Rebellion. Unfortunately, there is the founding of the White Horse Temple
little labeling in English. What is not near the old capital of Luoyang in
mentioned is that the museum is AD 68. Buddhism surged in popularity
during periods of instability, when
close to the Muxidi intersection, Confucianism’s veneration for authority
scene of a massacre of civilians by did not sit well with the populace. It was
the Chinese army during the eventually adopted by China’s rulers.
democracy protests of 1989.

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