more lama temple, this was the third temple. You can see all the smoke from the burning incense. You can also see how ornate the temple itself is. The attention to detail on every surface is very ornate without being too much. i think it is because the colors being used are not too gaudy. It would be easy to make this much ornamentation look like what i picture Larry Ellison's house to look like.

this is outside the third temple. You can play where's hua in this picture as well. You can also see people praying. The most interesting aspect to me though is the blue sign on the temple in the center. If you look closely you will see that it is in four different languages, Tibetan, manchu, Mongolian and mandarin. The reason that all signs are in these four are for historical reasons i do not fully understand but here is what i do know. Tibetan: because Chinese Buddhism is based in Tibet. manchu: because the temple was built during the qing dynasty (a manchu one). Mandarin: because it was spoken by the Han majority. Mongolian: cannot figure this one out. If you know i am curious why.

this is the last temple. It is my attempt to capture the feel of the temple.







here are some monks cleaning up after everyone praying. There was a absurd amount of garbage left behind by everyone. Burnt incense, non-burnt, dust, ash and more dusty ash. Also you can see the donation table before entering this hall on the right. With the amount of traffic through this temple the monks had their hands full keeping up with everyone.


this was a good luck spinner as near as i can tell. hua is not very religious so a lot of my questions went unanswered. i need to spend more time learning about Buddhism as it seems to be pretty interesting. People would spin these rotating tubes as fast as they could with one person taking each space between the posts. i was surprised people were not breaking their hands. They were spinning these things pretty fast and it seems like if you were not careful you could catch your hand in between the drum and the wood. Perhaps they need a sign similar to the one on the subway.