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April 12, 2013

Ancient Chinese Buddhist temple faces demolition
Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2013
Authorities in Xian, the Chinese city home to the Terracotta Warriors, have ordered most of the buildings in a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple demolished, staff said Thursday, provoking online outrage. The Xingjiao Temple holds relics of Xuan Zang, a Chinese monk who travelled to India to retrieve Buddhist scriptures in the 7th century. His trip was the basis of a popular 1988 Chinese television drama Journey to the West - and also inspired an earlier Japanese show, Monkey, which became cult vie ... read more

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