Wenbi Mountain
Forested peak with a hillside monastery and a sealed meditation cave fed by a spring said to never run dry.
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This guide to Wenbi Mountain above Lijiang follows a stone path past Wenfeng Temple to a narrow cave beside a spring said to have never run dry, where monks of the Karma Kagyu school have sealed themselves inside for years-long meditation retreats. It traces the temple's own history too, raised in the early 1730s under Naxi chieftain patronage and once prized for a relic said to be a Buddha's tooth. You'll hear how little is actually recorded about what sustained a retreatant through all that time in the dark, aside from the spring. Stand at the cave mouth and listen for water somewhere below.
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