Again, I love my city — Shenyang, and today I will talk about another religion building in my city — North Tower Dharma-Wheel Temple:
As the photo showed, it is not a Mahayana Buddhism temple. It is a Tibetan buddhism — Diamond Vehicle Buddhism temple. Maybe because my family believes Mahayana Buddhism — Great Vehicle Buddhism, I do not really familier with this temple.
A Tibetan Buddhism temple in Shenyang, that probably because Shenyang was the capital city of the 1st period Qing Dynasty, and Qing Emperors like Tibetan Buddhism a lot.
This temple is pretty big. I do not know if it is very popular in Shenyang, but there are a lot of people believe Tibetan Buddism in rest of China (provinces execpt Tibet). So, as we can tell from the picture, some of the prayers are praying.
Why it called “North Tower”? There were 4 towers in Shenyang years ago on 4 directions. Now in Shenyang, as I remember there are 2 or 3 left. But most of people know the towers exist is because now, there is a huge shoes and craft market in South Tower area; there is a military base in East Tower area; there is a huge grocery market in East Tower area. It seems this North Tower is the only one well protected.
Towers are very important in Buddhism. They are like most of the religious things in Buddhism, it could reduce bad Karma on people — people build them and people pray on them.
I don’t know what else to introduce, but I have to say Shenyang is a Holy place with all major religions.
