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碧雲寺在石級下照上共計一百七十級 No. 899, PI-YUEN-TSZU TEMPLE.
碧雲寺在石級下照上共計一百七十級 No. 899, PI-YUEN-TSZU TEMPLE.

碧雪寺在石級下照上共計一百七十級
No. 899, PI-YUEN-TSZU TEMPLE.

Well sorrounded by dark foliage this beautiful structure of white marble shows out to much advantage Theological writers when reviewing the religion of Buddha point out its close resemblance to Christianity; Bacon writing his Essay on Superstition probably had the fact in view when penning the lines:—Again superstition without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an Ape to be so like a Man; so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed.”