On my first evening on Putuoshan, the island dedicated to Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion), I strolled around the lotus pond in front of Puji Temple. At lunch the next day, I was in that temple's parking lot to take a shuttle bus north, to visit Huiji Temple. Well, today's the day: on the morning of my last full day on the island, I finally entered the gates of Puji, as we'll see in this episode of
TEMPLE TALES!