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Daybreak beckons at Phanom Rung Historical Park in Buriram Province, home of the most extensive and best kept Khmer temple ruins in Thailand. The Khmer Empire was the predecessor state to modern Cambodia which borders this area of Thailand. Based atop an ancient inactive volcano, Phanom Rung was built in a classic Angkor style between the 10th and 13th centuries and was dedicated to the Hindu god, Shiva.
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The Maruyamazuishininari shrine (円山隨身稲荷大明神) on the kofun in Shiba Park, behind the Shiba Toshogu shrine (芝東照宮).
This is a small shrine guarded by foxes and dedicated to the god Inari, a kami (also known as Inari Ōkami or Oinari, 稲荷大神), who is a god of rice and sake, fertility and foxes, and a bunch of other stuff - and general worldly success. Inari shrines are extremely popular in Japan, and you can find them everywhere (many of them quite small, and many of them much, much smaller than even this one).
RenownTravel: On Yaowarat Road in Bangkok’s Chinatown is the colorful Kuan Yim shrine of the Thian Fa Foundation. The shrines’ walls are adorned with colorful murals. Inside is a small golden image of Guanyin.
The shrine is dedicated to Guanyin, in Thailand also known as the Bodhisattva Phra Avalokitesuan. The Guanyin images dates to the 12th century. Carved from teak wood in the Tang dynasty art style, it is painted in gold color. With her right hand Guanyin makes the Varada mudra, the gesture of charity or making offerings. The image was brought over from China and enshrined in 1958.
The Thian Fa Foundation was established in 1902 by Chinese immigrants who settled in Bangkok. Its goal is to provide free medical care to those in need. Both traditional Chinese and modern treatments are performed at the foundation’s hospital next to the shrine.
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Film type: 135.
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Well, shrine cat, really. Temple sounds nicer. She paused for several moments like this in front of the food bowl tucked behind the wooden pillar, as if savoring the tantalizing moment before devouring what it contained.
Quite the atmosphere inside the Kian Un Keng Shrine. It was very peaceful on my visit - I was the only person there
Autumn leaves strewn across the path leading to the tori gate of the shrine, Kameoka, Japan. Medium format film scan.
I wish all of you Happy New Year 2025!
Many Japanese people visit shrines at the beginning of the year, wishing happiness in the new year.
In Motonosumi Shrine, red toriis are continued to reach the shrine, which is located at the top of a hill and is not shown in the photo. A torii is a gate to a shrine.
Field shrine with clouds closing in. Near Kyjov in South Moravia (Czech Republic). On a Tatra Photography workshop.
At the Kanda shinto shrine - Kanda-myōjin (神田明神).
This shrine dates its roots back to 730 AD, but it has relocated a couple of times and ended up here in 1603, moved to this place by the shogun (to make place for the expanding Edo castle, though officially to guard against misfortune because of an unhappy kami). Before this, in 1309, the warrior and rebel Taira no Masakado was enshrined in the Kanda shrine as a kami. The other two deities enshrined here are Onamuchi-no-mikoto (Daikoku-sama) and Sukunahikona-no-mokoto (Ebisu-sama). The shrine was added to the Tokyo ten shrines (東京十社 - Tokyo Jissha) during the Meiji era, but the emperor hesitated to do so since Masakado had led a rebellion against the central government in Kyoto in his day. This was resolved with the kami being removed from the shrine. However he proved to be so popular that he was reinstated after the second world war.
The shrine itself, as it stands today, was built in 1934 in the Gongen style after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).
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Roadside shrines and crosses are typical folklore and spiritual elements of Polish countryside landscape. This particular one was built in 19th century and is located in Płaza village near the place I grew up.
Płaza Syberia, Małopolska, Poland.
There is always a line-up of bottles of red Fanta at these shrines. Why does it have to be red Fanta? This article might help with the explanation www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thailand-drinks