Caption
Morning prayers at Fayuan Si, Beijing, China
by Graham Harrison
Evening prayers at Fayuan Si, the Temple of the Source of the Law, which dates from AD 689. Fayuan Si is home of the Beijing Buddhist Academy and the publishing department of the Chinese Buddhist Association. Activity at the monastery, curtailed during the years of the Cultural Revolution was beginning to revive at the time this image was taken. By 2005 over 300 young monks, trained at Fayuan Si since 1980, had returned to their local monasteries thus restoring Buddhist practices throughout China. This photograph was the cover image of the hardback edition of LIVING BUDDHISM (British Museum Publications 1989).
Photographer
Graham Harrison has travelled the world on assignments for Vogue and the Telegraph Magazine, had work exhibited and published by the British Museum, and shot an award-winning calendar for Shell UK. In 2005 Graham won the Academic Advisory Group’s Special Prize for religious photography at the first Art and Worship World Prize, Tehran. In 2006 he began documenting the life, culture and history of the City of Oxford for the new on-line archive The Oxford Year.
For more of Graham Harrison's work, see: www.harripix.com
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