Travel snapshot – One Teaching Pagoda in Fo Guang Shan Taiwan

Kaohsiung is the second most populous city in Taiwan and the capital of Southern region with international airport and harbor. It seems to me as the Busan of Taiwan, as opposed to Taipei being the Seoul of Taiwan. Of all tourists destinations, Fo Guang Shan (佛光山), an international Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monastic order based in Taiwan, is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan.

Being one of my recommended tourist spots (yes, it’s more like a tourist than a worship spot to me) in Taiwan, Fo Guang Shan Taiwan features a large memorial park where numbers of miniature pagodas featuring 16 Buddhist statements created by master Hsing Yun are lining along both sides. This snapshot of one of the pagodas called One Teaching Pagoda (一教塔) caught my attention for what it shares.

一句善心美言，即是天堂的花香；
一聲瞋恨惡語，即成地獄的刀劍。

It means:

A kind-hearted and nice word, is as sweet as smell of flowers in paradise;
A bad word full with aversion, is as destructive as swords in hell.

Each miniature pagoda shares an educational statement and they are like lecture to not only devotees but all people. I love it and hope you like it too! You may also read my other interesting travel stories in Taiwan here.  🙂 – Travel Feeder

Captured with Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm standard zoom lens attached. Photographed in Program Auto mode, with Shutter speed 1/60 sec. Aperture f4.5. Focus distance was set to 40mm. Auto ISO 180. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and +0.3 exposure value being compensated with Matrix metering. Post processed with iPad while on a train.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.