A sign in English identifying one
    of the temple buildings at Baima
    Temple in Henan Province--Hall
    of Mahavira.
    First built in the Yuan Dynasty, it
    says. Mahavira was the Jain
    teerthankara in India, who lived
    at the same time as Gautam
    Buddha.  Up until modern times,
    these two men were thought to
    be the same person by many,
    especially outside of India.  I
    wonder if this is the case here,
    the Yuan Dynasty being the
    foreign reign of the Mongols
    under Kublai Khan (c. 1200-
    1300).  
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