Amid all the shit in the world, the French elections, climate disasters, bombs built into an Iraqi school, an 18-year old girl brutally murdered in Belgium,... let's return for a moment of reflection to the top story of our China Pagoda. The tallest pagoda in China was inaugurated earlier this week in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
The 154 meter high Tianning Pagoda has 13 stories topped by a golden pinnacle. The temple in whose grounds the pagoda stands has been rebuilt five times over the last 1,350 years. Rebuilding the pagoda took five years and cost 300 million yuan.
But it was all worthwhile as more than 100 heads of Buddhist associations and temples in China and around the world attended the ceremony. We have a new vantage point, higher than ever, to observe what's going on in China and the world beyond.
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