ABSTRACT
Introduction: representing Chinese monasteries Geomancy (fengshui) was another form of nonprofit divination carried on by men as eminent as the Venerable Hsü-yün [Xuyun]. On one occasion he told a group of monks who were planning to erect a temple on Chung-nan Shan: “To the North it faces the White Tiger and the Evening Star. There is no mountain behind it to lean on. It does not seem to me a good place.” His view was confirmed when the temple failed.1
