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Prayer boards (Ema), hanging outside Daien-ji temple in Meguro, Tokyo.
People write their wishes and prayers on these wooden boards and leave them hanging at the shrine where the kami (spirits or gods) can read them.
Moscow. Novodevichy Convent
Camera: Kiev-4a + Lens: Jupiter-8M
Aperture="8" ExposureTime="1/125"
Film: Konica Centuria 100 (expired 01/2007)
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500 (+VueScan)
Photo taken: 26/04/2017
For Jeanne. Thanks to my dear friend for a great conversation, and pushing me to release some angst I've had about sharing some of my work. I appreciate her perspective and wisdom!
My sister-in-law, Avona and her female Great Dane, Rosie, are inseparable. After a number of years with an incurable cough and discomfort, Avona was diagnosed with what they now know was a hereditary lung disease. Currently she is high up on the lung transplant list at Stanford Medical Center. Any prayers you can send her way would be greatly appreciated. Her spirits are strong and she and Rosie have plans for a full life together and perhaps a bigger car!
Wudang Monastery - Baotou - Ordos - Inner Mongolia - Binnen Mongolië - China
Gebedsvlaggen - Prayers flags
"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD."
Psalm 25:4-7
Have a great and blessed sunday everyone!
... yes, it's sunday... though sometimes we forget, it's one day that we also have to thank God that we're still alive....................... and we still have our cameras to take great photos to upload here at Flickr. =)
Pattaya City, TH
This was taken at St. Michael’s Cemetery, which is located in the borough of Queens in New York City. Established in 1852, St. Michael’s is one of the oldest religious, nonprofit cemeteries in the New York City metropolitan area which is open to people of all faiths. I really love all the old statuary they have there. The statues all seem so peaceful and serene but also very sad. I think they seem to have a sort of quiet grace and dignity to them. There's something about this old statuary just seems to fascinate me!
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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Tibetan man at a pass near Nyalam in Tsang. Whenever you cross a high pass like this one (probably about 5000m or so) there are huge amounts of prayer flags draped all over the place, something of a thank you to the gods (tibetan buddhism is much more shamanistic than I had realised!) for allowing safe passage.
It's also worth noting that Tibetan men are usually stereotypical cowboys, they wear these fantastic wide brimmed hats during the summer. It took me about 3 days to realise how burnt my lips were getting in the dry, thin air and the glaring high sun and buy one. Even if it made me look like Indiana Jones.
Visiting a local church in Italy, I noticed a parishioner sitting in silent prayer. I sensed her peace and devotion amongst the symbols of her religion.
Painted with CP14.
Church of St Petrox
A Grade I Listed Building in Dartmouth, Devon
Entry Name: Church of St Petrox
Listing Date: 14 September 1949
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297086
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387138
Location: Dartmouth, South Hams, Devon, TQ6
County: Devon
District: South Hams
Civil Parish: Dartmouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Dartmouth Townstal
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
DARTMOUTH
Parish church. Probably late C12 origins (Norman font),
rebuilt and enlarged in 1641 (date plaque). Local limestone
and slatestone rubble, mostly roughcast but exposed on west
end and tower; freestone detail; slate roof with crested ridge
tiles.
PLAN: Uninterrupted nave and chancel with full-length north
and south aisles, west tower, and small lean-to heated vestry
against west end of the south aisle.
EXTERIOR: Vaguely Perpendicular in style. Tower of 2 stages
with low offset buttresses, stair tower projecting from south
side to embattled parapet, arch-headed belfry windows and tiny
lancets to the ringing floor, 4-light west window and blocked
Tudor-arch doorway in the north side. Main doorway in west end
of north aisle, another Tudor-arch doorway under a very
weathered plaque from which only the 41 of the 1641 date is
legible. Panelled door, like those on the south side, appears
to be C19 but reusing older ferramenta. Window above has plain
mullions from a repair (another similar at east end of south
aisle). North side has 2 raking buttresses and a window each
end, and south side has 3 windows to right of the vestry; all
arch-headed mullioned-and-transomed 3-light without
hoodmoulds, with Tudor arch-headed lights. Larger 4-light
version at east end of north aisle. East window of chancel has
intersecting tracery.
INTERIOR: Uninterrupted nave and chancel. 4-bay arcades to
aisles on octagonal piers with plain moulded capitals. Plain
plastered barrel-vaulted ceilings. Tall plain tower arch and
large beams to the ringing floor. Tower walls of exposed
stone, the rest are plastered. Tower floor is an attractive
chequer pattern of red, black and cream tiles. Rest of the
church has a stone flag floor including good graveslabs and
brasses at chancel end (see memorials).
FITTINGS: C20 altar table and communion rail. Good C17 oak
pulpit - octagonal with panelled sides and dated 1641. Plain
C19 pine benches. West end of south aisle screened off by a
partition made up from pieces of C17 panelling, enriched with
guilloche, strapwork, cherubs, leafy scrolls, etc: these
fragments are probably from the C17 gallery (dismantled in
1885) as are the panelled sections of the gallery frontal with
similar ornament set in the tower and now used to commemorate
those parishioners who died in both World Wars. Good Norman
red sandstone font - circular stem and bowl with frieze of
palmette decoration. Painted arms of Charles II from 1660 on
south wall. North wall has painted boards recording charitable
bequests; the largest dated 1677, others from 1823 and 1841.
An arcade of round-headed boards at west end of the south
aisle from former reredos has taller outer boards painted with
the Lords Prayer and the Creed with biblical quotations
between.
MEMORIALS: two C18 funeral hatchments of the Holdsworth
family. Floor includes good collection of mostly C17 and C18
ledger stones, many of them for members of the Newman and
Holdsworth families. A row of 3 good brasses to right of the
altar - best one in memory of John Roope (died 1609), others
to Dorothy Rous (died 1617) and Barbara Plumleigh (died 1610).
Best, if somewhat worn, mural monument is reset at east end of
south aisle, to Edward Roope (died 1683) - oval plaque with
bayleaf frame, pulvinated frieze on Corinthian columns over
carved console brackets. Each aisle has a similar small,
delicately carved and pedimented plaque, one to Nicholas Roope
(died 1625), the other to Margaret Plumleigh (died 1638).
GLASS: All late C19 and early C20 dates, but probably
including earlier glass. Mostly plain patterns of leaded glass
with coats of arms but stained glass from 1927 in east window.
The church forms part of an important group of listed
buildings at the mouth of the Dart estuary. The church
probably originated as a light positioned at the harbour
entrance.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(Russell, Percy: The Story of St Petrox Church - church
guide).
Listing NGR: SX8865150320
Prayer time at Ahmedabad's Jama Masjid Mosque in the Old City.
This one is dedicated to my father who grew up in Ahmedabad.
It is a prayer wheel in the street of Ladakhi village. A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel installed on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather or coarse cotton. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit on the outside of the wheel. Also sometimes depicted are Dakinis, Protectors and very often the 8 auspicious symbols Ashtamangala. At the core of the cylinder is a "Life Tree" often made of wood or metal with certain mantras written on or wrapped around it. Many thousands (or in the case of larger prayer wheels, millions) of mantras are then wrapped around this life tree. The Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is most commonly used, but other mantras may be used as well. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.
Inside the Prayer wheels thousands of shlokas and Hymns are inscribed. Rotating these wheels is equivalent to reciting all of them. Can it get easier than this ?