Guangxiao Temple

This guide to Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou opens with a question: what would you do with a secret dangerous enough to get you killed. It follows Huineng, secretly named the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism, who spent sixteen years hiding among hunters in the mountains rather than claim a title that senior monks wanted him dead for. In the year 676 he walked through the temple gate behind you, still unrecognized, and found two monks arguing over a flag snapping in the wind.