{"id":543311,"date":"2014-11-02T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T09:10:56","slug":"buddhist-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/buddhist-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"A day trip from Barcelona – Sakya Tashi Ling Buddhist Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are in Barcelona and have a sunny afternoon to spare and you fancy getting out of the buzzing city, then you might want to pay a visit to the\u00a0Sakya Tashi Ling<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>temple located at Plana<\/em>\u00a0near\u00a0Olivella<\/em>. This lovely monastery is situated in the heart of Parc del Garaf<\/strong><\/a> and is both colourful and peace-inducing.<\/p>\n

\"s\"Originally called the\u00a0Plana Novella Palace<\/strong>, the Tibetan monastery<\/strong> established itself in July of 1996 and was the first Buddhist monastery in Catalunya. The monks here follow the\u00a0Sakyapa<\/em>\u00a0tradition and the teachings of\u00a0Sakya Trizin<\/strong>, an ancient king from Tibet now considered to be a great spiritual leader.<\/p>\n

We visited on a bright sunshiney day complete with clear dark blue skies despite it being March, which made for a wonderful canvas.<\/p>\n

The monastery<\/strong> is surrounded by beautiful hills of lushest green, and views of the Mediterranean Sea in the distance. Combined with the positive chanting of the monks,<\/strong> it feels\u00a0like a very special place to be and you will feel\u00a0very lucky to be there.<\/p>\n

Related article: Barcelona for Buddhists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"buddhist<\/a>In the prayer garden, colourful cloths billow like fidgeting flags and gently oscillate at the will of the breeze \u2013 each containing a prayer. In the centre of the garden is\u00a0a quite odd-looking shrine embellished with unusual symbolism and containing small gold effigies of gods such as the elephant god, Lord Ganesha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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A busy little caf\u00e9 offers reasonably priced food, herbal teas, home-made cakes and ice creams, whilst a tiny shop sold trinkets, crystals, statues, cards and the usual \u2018spiritual\u2019 suspects to the tourists.<\/p>\n

This is a really enjoyable and calming day trip outside of Barcelona<\/strong>, which will only take an afternoon, although a side-trip to the not-so-calm but equally enjoyable seaside town of Sitges<\/strong><\/a>, is thoroughly recommended.<\/p>\n

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If you are in Barcelona and have a sunny afternoon to spare and you fancy getting out of the buzzing city, then you might want to pay a visit to the\u00a0Sakya Tashi Ling\u00a0temple located at Plana\u00a0near\u00a0Olivella. This lovely monastery is situated in the heart of Parc del Garaf and is both colourful and peace-inducing. Originally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":545770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52550],"tags":[56006,56008,57934,69228],"class_list":["post-543311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visiting","tag-buddhism-barcelona","tag-buddhist-temple-barcelona","tag-day-trips-from-barcelona","tag-what-to-do-in-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}