Show sacred chinese temple taken over by bandits mount lushan Lushi in one c of f the twelve sacred mountains of china famed alike for the he piety of its ita monks and for the beauty of its scenery has been entirely preempted pre empted by bandits the once 61 sacred cra grottos formerly given over to tile contemplation of immense carved images of buddha or to the rites of taoist priests are now used as prisons ancient chinese writings declare that mount dushan was 10 tulles miles high and miles in circumference eucie today lushan rises only a little more than feet but bui it affords an unsurpassed view southward over the gulf of and eastward toward the Llao tung peninsula on which the ilie russians built port arthur and on which the japanese now occupy dairen lushan to Is very rugged and to in olden times every cuff cliff was ornamented with a temple yu 1 the famous chatan wh who 0 roseto rose to power under tinder genghis aklian was an especial devotee of laskan and fege legends rift have it that he selected this mountain to be i he e eternal trustee of wisdom accordingly he Is supposed to have burled buried sacred books in a cavern under tile peak of the mountain and then to have erected over his repository pos tory the temple which h today Is a bleak ruin |