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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.
Took this at a monastery at Spiti ovally. There was a morning prayer session at the monastery - and it was mostly kids for some reason. I assumed it was going on for a while - because the kids had food and drinks with them and were happily munching on them when the prayers were going on.
“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
― Dan Brown.
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I took this photo of a “Prayer Building” at Gwaneumsa Buddhist Temple with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting and touring Jeju Island, South Korea. You can see the candles and offer a prayer if you choose to do so…
a couple of nights ago we chanced upon a night prayer rally set up by demonstrators in front of the congress in quezon city, philippines. several demonstrators had their heads shaved to signify their protests against laws on land reform that the current government administration failed to implement.
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!
"It is said in ancient sutras, that if this prayer and wish is sincere, the deed is already accomplished. I'll buy that."
- Jack Kerouac
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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
HDR 5 ex -2,-1,0,+1,+2 ..tone mapped with Photomatix and PP with Topaz Adjust and further work in CS3
Friday prayers at the 17th-century Mahabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. Seeing this from an adjacent rooftop in May 2004 was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. This is what I wrote about the experience at the time:
Though its capacity was significantly smaller than the other great Mughal mosques, the Mahabat Khan Mosque was the largest in the old city and was Peshawar’s primary Friday Mosque. But it wasn’t big enough to house the thousands of men from Peshawar and the surrounding villages who wanted to prostrate themselves before Allah. No one could tell me the capacity of the mosque (one said fifteen thousand, which I knew to be a greatly overstated figure), so in the end I went into the courtyard and counted the tiled rectangles on the floor that were designed to separate one worshipper from the next. There were only fourteen hundred and one (the vast courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, by comparison, was reputed to be able to hold one hundred thousand people).
As Friday prayers began at one o’clock, I was overlooking the mosque from a rooftop across the street. The mosque was packed with fourteen hundred and one devoted Muslim men in shalwar qamiz and mosque caps, genuflecting, sitting and standing in unison, perfectly spaced in their individual rectangles, displaying a harmony in prayer that so contrasted the seemingly random acts of worship that took place at the many Hindu temples I had visited in India.
But the devout were not confined to the mosque itself. Those who could not fit in the courtyard climbed onto the rooftops of adjacent buildings, put down their prayer mats and performed the ritual there. There were little boys and old men alike, and as the courtyard worshippers went up and down, so did these rooftop dwellers. The practice had obviously been happening for years, because there were purpose-built stairs on the outside of the mosque leading to these rooftops, and at the bottom of these staircases were taps to allow the Muslims who could not reach the ablutions tank in the mosque’s courtyard to clean themselves before praying.
This wall of prayer wheels were at our hotel in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan., We were at the very beautiful Druk Hotel and our rooms were really really pretty. As we progressed across the country the accommodation went from four star to maybe two star:-)