Tag: buddhism
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Between Fire and Silence: How Faith Evolves~
These two images were taken in China, in a Buddhist temple. I remember, during my time living there, asking a Buddhist friend when he typically went to the temple. His answer stayed with me ever since. He said, “I go when I want something, and when I am sick.” That struck me as fascinating, so…
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Saffron dedication~
All over Asia where Buddhism abounds, the saffron color pops up worn by monks to symbolize their simplicity and detachment from materialism. They always look amazing in photographs and they are so kind to humor tourists and photographers. Day 78 of 365~ Images taken at Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Day 3~ May 3rd~ Cambodia
Upon meeting the Khmer temples of Cambodia for the first time and walking between their columns and galleries, I felt as though time had become elastic, no longer confined to my usual linear perception of it… Angkor Wat, the largest Hindu temple in the world, now a Buddhist temple, still in use religiously, haunting with…
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Phnom Penh- Day one- part 2- peace at last
After going through the wide range of emotions that places like the killing fields and S1 genocide museum cause, it was so delightful to see the other side of Cambodia’s history. The royal palace and the national museum, so much peace, so much beauty, so much spirituality, so much yellow and gold, so much silver…