Crouched down before the mountain 雲居山Yúnjūshān, Cloud's Home Mountain, is the lovely 真如寺 Zhēnrúsì, first established in 813, the temple of Zhenru Dayu. Su Dongpo visited here with his monk friend Foyin and exchanged poems. Outside the main gate is the pagoda tomb of the sage monk Xu Yun 虛雲 Empty Cloud who died in 1959 at the age of 120 years.
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