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Monks at Dazhao temple in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. 

See previous entry with photos of the temple’s architecture and design and statues.

Statues from Dazhao temple in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. 

See previous entry with photos of the temple’s architecture and design.

I said I would give you more about this place and its amazing architecture and design, and here you go. This is the incredible Dazhao temple (or Lamasery) in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. We have been to A LOT of temples all around China in our two years here (I mean a ridiculous amount) and usually they all have something special about them, like location, an special statue, kung-fu monks, but all in all, their design and architecture are usually pretty similar. So much so that details of the different temples start to blend into each other and I feel like now I have one giant temple in my mind made up of all the cool parts of other temples. 

The thing is, I don’t think Dazhao temple will easily fit into my mind temple because it is as cool as that place all on its own. It was easily the most uniquely decorated and designed temple we’ve seen (only beat by one very outstanding exception I’ll blog about later). I don’t know why it was so much more colorful, detailed, bling crazy and whimsical than others, but there was definitely some different thinking going on. I can only speculate that it has something to do with the fact that it is a Mongolian style temple instead of a “Chinese” style temple. But I don’t know for sure because we don’t travel tour guide style and so I don’t know a lot of history about it, only that I like it. Which, in the end, is all that matters to me.

I have so many pictures from this place that I will do three posts about it. This post is the Architecture and design. The next will be the statues and the final one will be the monks. 

Note: It was a overcast day and and these picture make it look brooding and melancholy, but that is only the weather and my style of photography and not a completely accurate representation of the place.