Yonghegong lamasery

We were intrigued to visit the Tibetan

monastery – an active tribute to the Tibetan Buddhist faith that the Chinese have so violently overruled. We let the politics of the situation settle into the backs of our minds while we visited the monastery (Lamasery actually- with lamas instead of monks). It was an elaborate complex, being renovated with glossy red paint, beautiful and living, a center of peaceful feeling in the midst of Beijing.