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2-Day Live-in Temple Buddhist Monk Mediation Experience from Hangzhou
Futuo Temple Experience
Temple Tour
Futuo Temple
Futuo Temple

2-Day Live-in Temple Buddhist Monk Mediation Experience from Hangzhou

By Trendy Adventurer
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$381 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Spend a night and two days in monk’s robes in an ancient Chinese temple in the middle of a bamboo forest. Experiment with Eastern soul searching away from the noise of the cities.

Practice Zen cultivation. Experiment with Chinese Buddhist meditation. Take a break.

Spend two days and one night in monk’s robes in an ancient temple in the middle of a bamboo forest. Eat meals with monks in old temple halls, do sutra chants, meditation and calligraphy scroll transcription, and quiet your mind in the forest.

Your chance to disconnect.

  1. Wear monk’s robes and blend into the daily rhythm of temple life, sleeping in the temple and eating only vegetarian alms.
  2. Guided by a master monk, learn into the Buddhist culture of Futuo Temple.
  3. Experiment with these Eastern-evolved methods of soul searching. Find some inner peace.
    Practice Zen cultivation. Cast off anxiety in meditative sutra transcription.

Activity location

  • Hangzhou
    • Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hangzhou
    • Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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Futuo Temple Group Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
AU$381.11 x 1 AdultAU$381.11
Total
Price is AU$381.11
Until Thu, 2 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedChinese-English bilingual guide accompaniment
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided Temple Tour, Guided Meditation, Transcription
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's includedWhat's includedDinner
  • What's includedWhat's includedBreakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedTransport by private vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedOvernight accommodation in the temple
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAirport Pickup and Drop off
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAny individual personal expenditures

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Only vegetarian food is available during the trip

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Hangzhou -> Futuo Temple
  • 3 stops
  • Meals: lunch, snacks
  • Accommodation: Overnight at Futuo Temple Standard Amenities
Hangzhou
  • 1h
Meet up. Depart. Early morning, meet up with/be picked up by your guide in Hangzhou. Get acquainted. Depart for the forest temple.
Baizhangzhen
  • 5h
Arrive. Lunch. Futuo temple tour. Arrive Futuo Temple. Slip into Buddhist robes and find your sleeping quarters. Take a moment organise your space and settle in before lunch. Your first temple meal. Eat with vegetarian monks in the temple halls. Meet the master monk in the afternoon, then walk with him on an in-depth tour of the temple grounds. Learn temple etiquette and some of the things that make this temple special - as well as some things about Chinese Buddhist practice. Return to the temple hall for an evening meal.
Baizhangzhen
  • 3h
Dinner. Zen meditation. Dinner ends. Zen cultivation begins. Sit for quiet meditation under the master’s guidance. Afterwards, moving to transcribe the archaic characters of ancient Buddhist sutras using the calligraphy brush. Experiment with these Eastern-evolved methods of soul searching. Find some inner peace.
Day 2: Futuo Temple - Hangzhou
  • 3 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Not included
Futuo Zen Temple
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
Morning class. Breakfast. In step with the monks, rise at 5:30. Attend your morning lesson. Chant sutras and surrender to the hum of Buddhist song and settle your soul. Breakfast: eat a temple hall breakfast. Finish eating then rest outside.
Baizhangzhen
  • 2h
Temple tower climb. Bamboo forest walk. Absorb the atmosphere outside on the temple grounds, climb the temple tower, then wander into the never-ending bamboo forests that the temple. Walk the quiet paths under soft, green-tinted light. With no loud colours, sights or sounds to stir your mind, relax.
Baizhangzhen
  • 2h
Temple hall lunch. Tour end. Return to Hangzhou. Return to the compound for one final lunch with the monks before ending the experience. Return to Hangzhou.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESHangzhou
    • Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHangzhou
    • Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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