My wife is Buddhist, she is Chinese. I have spent many hours with her in some of the most interesting Buddhist temples in Beijing, and the surrounding area....
The Chinese Buddhists, love incense, they buy it by the arm full and throw it on these incense pyres that sometimes get like bonfires. I spent a whole morning this past January in a temple in the mountains outside of Beijing, staying warm by the incense pyre while my while made the rounds praying in the different parts of the temple..
I am Episcopalian, but have a wide world view of religions, I think Buddhism has it right..
I have some pictures of on of the temples outside Beijing, I have to wade through a few hundred images to find them
