The oral ethnography project "15
minutes" illuminates the social significance of the Shuang Lin
Monastery; as a space for religious,
social, cultural purposes. From the visitor's perspective, it shows the reasons
why people visit the monastery.
Participants are people who have joined the Cultural
Compass tours or who visited the monastery for social, cultural or religious
purposes. See and hear their thoughts.
Their feedback illustrates how a place is
more than the layout of physical landscape. It is the people, the culture and the
history that creates a unique ambience of a place. Such factors cannot be recreated, it is a
unique characteristic of a living institution.
The feedback also demonstrates how heritage
sites can be a place for cross cultural understanding and a place to relate the
past to the present.
Mr.
David Williams, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
