Xian Baxian'an 西安八仙庵: Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p1063650349 Photographs of the &quot;Eight Immortals Abode&quot; (Baxian'an 八仙庵), the main Daoist temple in Xian 西安, Shanxi province, China. As can be seen from these images, the site was just in the process of being &quot;reclaimed&quot; for Daoist practice and worship. <br/><br/>Photographs taken in the summer of 1985. <br/><br/>Kodak slides, scanned to TIFF with an Epson 4990 scanner. Images converted to lossless JPG and individually postprocessed for color and contrast adjustment. <br/><br/>Thomas H. Hahn<br/>Ithaca, NY en-us (C) Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:30:00 GMT Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:35:00 GMT Places of Interest Architecture and Structures http://hahn.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v0/p21776159-10.jpg Xian Baxian'an 西安八仙庵: Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p1063650349 120 80 Stone tablet with name and "status" designation on the provincial register of monuments http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p1063650349/e14C471F

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