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Beijing’s most active Daoist complex, Bai Yun Guan, is better known as White Cloud Temple.
The Southern Heng Mountain (Hengshannan, also called Nanyue), one of China’s Five Sacred Mountains in the ancient Daoist pantheon, is 112 km (70 miles) south of Changsha.
The final major pavilion is the Hall of Imperial Peace (Jin An Dian), a Daoist temple to Xuanwu, the God of Fire.
Other temples of significant interest and variety are Big Bell Temple (Dazhongsi), with China’s leading collection of antique bells; Temple of the White Pagoda (Baitasi), with its newly renovated 13th century Tibetan stupa, China’s largest; Five Pagoda Temple (Wutasi), decorated with Indian-influenced sculptures; and White Clouds Daoist Temple (Baiyuanguan), where Beijingers of all ages crowd in to pray for good fortune at a variety of most unusual shrines.
Xi’an’s once-glorious temples were devastated during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), but restorations have led to the reopening of the Lama Temple (Guangrensi), founded in 1705; Woolongsi, an ancient Zen Buddhist temple; Dongyuemiao, a Daoist temple to the mountain god of Taishan; and the Temple of the Eight Immortals (Baxianguan), which is the most active of the city’s religious shrines at present and has an open-air market.