A shrine with Buddha holding a lotus flower

A shrine figure

Placing paper offerings in a temple brazier

Older women with bound feet stepping into a temple courtyard

Customers at a temple stall selling earthenware tea cups, prayer beads, incense and other offerings

Women passing sticks of incense to a Buddhist priest at a temple brazier

Shrine figures

Stall at a temple selling bells, prayer beads, and other offerings

Shrine with crowned Buddha and two bearded attendants

Longhua Temple, Shanghai

Longhua Temple and incense burner, Shanghai

Dragon pillars at Dacheng Hall, Temple of Confucius, Qufu (曲阜)

Harry, Guy and Walter Hillier at Balizhuang temple near Beijing

Young man standing on steps to a censer in a temple in the Chinese city, Shanghai

Pagoda outside Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou

Tourists at a sacred fish pond, Hangzhou

Grand Hall, Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou

Group of family and friends eating in a tea house, Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou

Pailou on landing stage at the Yue Fei Temple, West Lake (Xihu), Hangzhou

Entrance to Yue Fei Temple, West Lake (Xihu), Hangzhou