The Monestary here in Memphis is actually an big old farmhouse. It's been renovated quite a bit but it's more or less very good for the needs of the monks and nuns and the lay people, plus the large amount of land supports vegetable gardens and there is a lot of room for statues which have helped to beautify the surrounding neighborhood. One thing of interest is when clearing an overgrown thicket, they found the gravesites of the people who had lived on the farm, apparently a white farmer, his consort (probably a slave) and his children. Never buried on church property, but now on temple grounds. We cleaned up there little cemetary as best we could.
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I just attended my first Buddhist class... in an old KINGDOM HALL!
by Kudra init was weird seeing all the typical dub stuff in another setting... .
literature cabinets full of buddhist pamphlets!
no windows!
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I just attended my first Buddhist class... in an old KINGDOM HALL!
by Kudra init was weird seeing all the typical dub stuff in another setting... .
literature cabinets full of buddhist pamphlets!
no windows!
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frylock_lives
I took refuge with Thich Nguyen Tanh and Thich Dao Quan in vietnames Pure Land/Thien School. I've never heard of a kingdom hall turned into a temple or meditaion hall, but why not, as long as the seats can be moved out of the way. Also the platorm is a good place to put the offering table and statues of the Buddha and Boddhisatvas. Jonathon Chanh-Niem
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frylock_lives
Jaracz has a heart?
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I hear he's being upgraded at the moment:
"I am Jaraczus of the Cybertower Collective. Resistance is futile. Advertise Advertise" -
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frylock_lives
Never trust a man who coats his truck seat in fishing lures.