Fahai temple was built when Shakespeare was a boy.  It has in it amazing mosaics depicting blue, tusked gods, and ladies floating on clouds. It is about 20 minutes drive from our Gucheng school. I took a walk up to this temple on my first day in China, and it is still one of my favourite walks in the area.

This video does not enter the temple: cameras are not allowed. In walking through most temples, Faihai Si included, you ascend through a series of areas, divided by steep stairs upward, toward the highest point.  The highest point of the temple represents the highest achievement, the highest level of mastery.

Although the video does not enter the temple, the road toward Fahai Si seems to mimic, or precede, the temples’ architecturual foundation in an ascent toward mastery.