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4084 - Qingyuan, Guangdong, China

Merry Christmas from China. The sender is from Qingyuan, which is home to the Feilai Temple  飞来寺. It is a Buddhist temple located on the bank of the Bei River, It was originally built in CE 520, but because of natural disasters has been rebuilt several times. The current version was completed in June 2004.  Chan master Zhenjun  贞俊禅师  and Ling'ai  灵霭禅师  first built the temple in the first year of Period Putong in the Liang Dynasty. Bodhidharma preached dharma at the temple when he visited.  On 8 May 1997, Feilai Temple was destroyed along with eleven monks and nuns, and two workers, by floods and mudslides. The current temple began rebuilding in December of the same year.