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Posts tagged buddhist

Rainy Days and Mondays

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Daishoin on Miyajima (June 2013)

Buddha

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Mountain Meadows Inn Bed & Breakfast garden (Ashford, Washington – September 2022)

12 years ago…

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Kamakura Daibutsu (July 2010)

Portland Japanese Flat Garden

日本庭園

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I’ve visited Portland at least a couple dozen times over the past 25 years. I thought I had been to the Portland Japanese Garden about 20 years ago. We went for a visit this past weekend, and I realized it was the Seattle Japanese Garden that I went to long ago so this was a first. There was a pretty good downpour just before (and just after) taking this photo (which is a photomerge of 22 photos) so not many people around.

Tochoji

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Tochoji’s Buddharupas (Fukuoka, Japan)

The sign at my feet as I took today’s photo said, in English, “Do Not Enter. Buddhists Only.”, as if the ability to read English automatically makes a person not a Buddhist.

Toshogu five-story pagoda

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Nikkō Tōshō-gū pagoda (May 2010)

The original five-story pagoda was donated by a daimyo in 1650, but it was burned down during a fire and was rebuilt in 1818. Each story represents an element: earth, water, fire, wind, and the void.