The Other Temples of Beijing
There are three other very prominent temples in Beijing: the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Moon, and the Temple of Sun. The three temples are each located in a different key compass direction in the city and during their heyday they all served a unique purpose.
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“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
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