The real-life Castle in the Sky, the stunningly beautiful Zizhu Temple

Zizhu Temple is located on Zizhu Mountain in Shagong Township, Dingqing County, Changdu Region, Tibet, at an altitude of about 4800 meters. It is one of the highest temples in Tibet and one of the oldest and most important temples of the Yongzhong Bon religion. According to legend, Zizhu Temple was built three thousand years ago, initiated by the second Tibetan king Muchi Zanpu, created and inherited by the first master of the great achiever Mubang Sadong, and is now the forty-third generation. Zizhu Temple is now a cultural relic protection unit at the autonomous region level in Tibet. Zizhu means six peaks, where the peaks are steep and rugged, with strange rocks and stacked Zen temples. It symbolizes the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva using compassion and wisdom to transform all beings in the six realms, helping them to walk the path of liberation from troubles, representing the six practices of giving, keeping precepts, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom, as well as the ways to counteract the greed, ignorance, anger, arrogance, jealousy, and wrong views of sentient beings. On the day of the visit, we set off from Changdu via Lei Wuzi to Dingqing. About thirty kilometers away from Dingqing County, we left National Highway 317 and turned into the branch line to Sangdu. Immediately, you will see the under-construction Zizhu Temple Visitor Service Center, parking lot, and shuttle bus transfer point, which may soon start charging... After entering the mountain, the winding mountain road is about thirteen kilometers long, with newly installed guardrails but no pavement, which is a big challenge for family cars. Of course, SUVs and above have no problem. When you are about to enter the mountain gate, the sun comes out and you rush to the viewing platform to shoot the panorama, and then come down to enter the temple. After all, in the mountains, the microclimate is changeable, sometimes sunny, sometimes cloudy, sometimes foggy, sometimes snowing. The temple as a whole faces west, which is very suitable for shooting in the afternoon. In addition, the wind is strong in the mountains, so be very careful when flying drones!