Mount Emei
Temple in Emeishan, Sichuan, China. Part of China.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notes on China | Dwarkesh Patel | setting | The author visits a vast, nearly empty Buddhist temple in Emeishan where each gate opens onto a larger, more ornate building, five or six times over. |
Notes on China — Dwarkesh Patel (2024)
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Even in Emeishan, a city of just half a million people (considered a quaint countryside town by Chinese standards), we found a Buddhist temple of comical scale
- Role: setting
- In the article: The author visits a vast, nearly empty Buddhist temple in Emeishan where each gate opens onto a larger, more ornate building, five or six times over. A monk asked how it was funded answers ‘We’ve got a lot of supporters, dude’ and changes the subject.
- Why it matters: It is the author’s concrete illustration of China’s scale and of opaque funding; the ‘Scale’ section would lose its most vivid anecdote elsewhere.