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New art in an small neighborhood temple by the sea. There are 108 legends about hero-monks and this shows one of them. I don't know the story but this is clearly a sea dragon.
Its really unusual to see a dragon in Chinese art portrayed as dangerous.
I am going to try to learn these 2 stories and add them to the pictures.
(monk with tiger follows)
Xiamen, China
The Monks at Bransholme North off the roundabout as you head towards Kingswood and Bransholme North these are beautiful wood carvings on your left if driving into the area. Taken on the 31 March 2019
He was the abbot of a monastery in Lop Buri and about 90 years old, when I took the picture. The story behind the picture: Before my wife and I could marry, we had to pass the monk test. We (my wifes parents, my wife and I) started very early in the morning to get to a monastery in Lop Buri before noon. From Bangkok, everything seems to be far, because you need to get through the mother of traffic jams before you really start driving. I was a bit afraid, because I didn't know what it would be and the result was not sure.
When we got there, this monk was sitting in an old chair surrounded by some people and it seemed, they had fun, chatting. Everybody looked happy. Later, we had our audience. I tried to follow all the rules, that I had read about before my first trip to Thailand. One was, not showing my feet (the soles) to the monk. I was sitting on them as good as I could. No problem with this monk, but there was another one walking behind me all the time.
The monk looked at us, asked for our birth dates. My wife had to translate it to the Buddhist years (it is plus 543 years), he took a book, read for a while and then said, that it is ok, when we get married. Phew... what a relief.
I don't understand Thai well... just nit noi (a little bit), so my wife has been translating, but I was really impressed about him (from the first moment), because I felt, that he was a wise and kind man. Finally he sprayed some water on us and packed a little yellow cloth into a zip-lock plastic bag and gave it to us. I really wondered about the concentration he had while folding and packing the cloth.
After that, my father-in-law asked me to take pictures of the monk. I was pretty unsure about that, because I had learned "no pictures inside temples, no pictures from monks), so I took four pictures... I am not sure, that he liked it, but he was posing for me.
In the year after, he died and one of those pictures has been used for the funeral. I also had a picture in our living room, but my wife decided, it wouldn't be good, so the picture is in the gueast room now.
Young monk in Bayon temple, at Ankgor Thom - Cambodia. View it on my photoblog: www.ccpixel.net/people/young-monk-front/
"Here under lies the boddies of Bafill ffildinge of Newnham in the county of Warwick esq. sonne and heire of Sir William Fieilding, Knight. Which Basill deseased the . ...in the yeare of our lord god.......... and gooddethe his wife which gooddeth deceassed the xixth day of december in the yeare of our lord god 1580 : who we hope rest in joy"
Basil Feilding 1500 - 1582 of Newnham Paddox & wife Goditha Willington 1513 - 1580 , a dog sleeping at her feet - a lion at his
6 sons , the eldest with his wife, stand below; Their daughters probably are on the other inaccessible side
Basil was the son of William Fielding 1547 & Elizabeth Pulteney / Poulteney www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5x1477yDmR
He m Goditha 1513 - 580 flic.kr/p/2dfWQQz daughter of William Willington of Barcheston 1555 & and 1st wife Anne Middlemore flic.kr/p/2c9ZXt5 daughter of Richard Middlemore of Edgebaston & Margery daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton and Margaret co-heiress of Sir Robert Olney www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/epdmot
Goditha was the sister of Mary Willington 1553 1st wife of William Sheldon of Beoley & Weston 1570 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2776L25Ts9 ; & Katherine Catesby / Kempe / Throckmorton at Chastleton flic.kr/p/4T8pqR
Children - 6 sons (2 died as infants) & possibly as many as 5 to 6 daughters www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/560fd8m3tQ
1. William 1553 m Dorothy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Sm2FcH9125 daughter of Sir Ralph Lane of Orlingbury and Maud daughter of Sir William 1st Baron Parr of Horton and Mary daughter of Sir William Salisbury and Elizabeth Wylde
1. Ann m Sir Humphrey Peyto 1585 of Chesterton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/LYjxY7 son of John Peyto 1558 & Ann daughter of John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle by Dorothy daughter of William Harper / Harpur of Rushall
3. (?) Margery / Mary b 1539
Goditha died on 19 September 1580
Coats of arms: A saltire vair azure and argent, (Willington) and Argent on a fess azure three lozenges or (Feilding)
Picture with thanks - copyright Lancashire Lass www.findagrave.com/memorial/148870374/basil-feilding
Tibetan Buddhist monks pray after debating Buddhist scriptures at Sera Monastery's debating courtyard in Lhasa, Tibet, China November 1, 2010. Photo by Tim Chong
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I had some misgivings about photographing this ceremony in Luang Prabang. It has become a very touristy event with vendors trying to sell packets of rice to tourists, guesthouses lining people up, and a lot of photographers willing to be extremely intrusive. I have given things to monks on their morning rounds, but generally when I'm in a Bangkok market and a single monk wanders past, or occasionally if I'm going into a local temple. This seemed stagy and rather shallow.
On the other hand, it was misty this particular morning, and watching a line of monks proceed out of the mist and then return to it was remarkably affecting; and I was treated to a performance of a Buddhist hymn as the monks of one monastery returned to their grounds - really a big treat for a musician, to hear something like that in the echoing early morning air.
My advice if you want to get the best out of this event would be to spend a little while in Luang Prabang and focus on a couple of the monasteries slightly off the beaten track, and take photos after you've already got some idea of what's going on. Oh, and take your long lens and some imagination with you.