Hanlu Temple · A temple you can walk into
An evening courtyard, in your browser
Thirty-two buildings on a hillside, a stone bridge over a release pond, and one small monk who is you. Nothing to install, no account, no music you have to turn off.
What you can actually do
Walk. Sit down on a cushion. Bow three times, slowly, if you want to. Count a hundred and eight beads one by one, with a sound for each. Strike a wooden fish. Or sit in one of ten halls and draw a lot — the temple has eighty original lot texts, eight per hall.
Three of them have a page of their own: beads, bowing, and the wooden fish.
Everything is in the browser and nothing is uploaded. There is no photo, no camera, no sign-up. Close the tab and it is over.
What it is not
It is not a temple, and it does not represent one. The buildings are original models, the figures have no faces, and the text is written for this project. There is no incense, no offering, no chanting, no monk to consult.
It makes no promises. The lots are eighty sentences written by hand — they are there to help you put a question into words, not to predict anything.
The ten halls
Each hall is dedicated to one figure, and each page explains where that figure would stand in a real Chinese temple, and what people actually ask them for. Start with the Guandi Shrine, the first building past the gate.
Enter the courtyard Read the eighty lots →
The controls inside are in English when you come in from this page. The lots themselves are Chinese verse, with a short reading in English.
Ten halls explained in English → Notes on how a temple works →