Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The Bandarban: Buddhist Temple


We visited this temple was we were departing for Rangamatti. Normally not open to anyone until the afternoon, we were granted access (I assume because we are white/foreign). We reached the temple at about 7:30AM, so it was light but not yet too warm. The temple was beautiful, as you can see from the pictures, and offered an outstanding view of the valley below. Luckily, I was allowed to enter despite the sign outside that said no "half-pants" allowed.
A lion based flag pole, and some of the view from the temple.


Getting my Om on.




I wish that someone had been present to explain the significance of these little Bhuddas. There were 9 encircling the inner shrine, each corresponding to one of the planets.


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