Wang Yang aspires to be trained as an anthropologist. He conducted a six-month fieldwork in Chengdu for his master’s thesis, during which time he volunteered at the Daci Temple as a member of the temple community. While he observed the everyday encounters between temple volunteers and touristic pilgrims, he was also actively involved in such interactions. According to him, within the setting of the “Temple-Commerce Agglomeration”, these interactions among urbanites (volunteers, consumers, tourists, pilgrims, etc.) not only testify to a unique mode of “doing” religion, but also inform how urban temples are administered in the everyday life. As he argues, studying the agency of the temple as well as the agency of those involved in these interactions requires a more nuanced way of observing urban temples that serve as major tourist sites. Essentially, his research aims to complicate the image or the impression that Buddhist sites in contemporary Chinese cities are overly “commercialized and commodified”.