This week’s DP photo challenge is Rare.
I have never posted this photo as it was inadvertently focused; I should have focused it on the dragon head.
The picture was taken in a temple in Macau.
I have seen incense and oranges being offered in temple; but never have I seen the offerings placed on a wooden dragon boat like altar.
Isn’t this rare?
This week’s DP Photo Challenge is Faces.
At the Bayon Temple in Cambodia, there sits 216 gigantic faces of the Buddha.
Many of them are arranged in a minaret of four faces looking in four orthogonal directions.
The faces look similar but, in fact, each of them is different – they are all hand crafted.
Here, I have handpicked three of the faces which I found most impressive.
They all seem to be smiling; they all look benevolent too.
They are all mesmerizing, please enjoy🙂
While travelling in Yunnan, China, I captured this photo of some temples.
The interesting thing is that at the corners of the eaves of the temples, there are funny decorations pointing to the sky.
To me, they look like dragons, dancing upwards to the sky.
I could only marvel at the attention of details to this roof construction.
Not sure whether there is some mythology behind it.
I wasn’t sure what was on my mind when seeing this in the Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong.
There was a big bronze bowl which has a face molded on it. The bowl full of sand was for insertion of the incense sticks.
Smoke from the incense sticks coming up to the air.
At the same time, light from the roof above was glancing down as the sun was setting.
I had a state of mind which I have never experienced.
Lately, the DP Photo Challenges are getting more and more difficult to handle.
This week, the theme of the challenge is Weightless.
I am sure smoke has weight too.
Things that have mass have weight.
Smoke particles, which has mass, Â must carry some weight.
Nevertheless, they seem to be floating away from these incense sticks.
The picture was taken in Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong.
It not only appears weightless, but also timeless!
I was thinking of drafting a post on the Trees and Roots on the Milford Track; but on going through my archive, I found this picture which I thought should be uploaded now.
The light was shining through the foliage, when we visited the HongLuo Temple in the outskirts of Beijing a couple of years ago.
I have seen many ginkgo trees before but this one was at its best with the light shining through, making the leaves more or less translucent.
You may notice that I have started a series on The Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas.
This is a strange sight as you climb up the hill on your way to the temple.
Spread over the hillside are some Luohans or Arhats.
They are not only coated in gold, but they have different expressions / postures.
Some of them are mounted on an animal too.
Very interesting!
The only view that I have seen and, in a way similar to this one, is the view I saw in the hills of HungLuo Temple, Beijing.
In the forest, there are dozens of monks who are clothed in red.
The picture shows the rear views of the monk statues.
I have pictures of their front views too but they are too disrupted from the shadows cast onto the statutes.
Please enjoy🙂
