A description and translation of some inscriptions found in northern Malaysia dating from the 5th century.
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 A set of photographs of reliefs illustrating the main characters from the Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi.  New photographs on the Photo Dharma website published from a syncretic, Chinese Traditional/Mahāyāna Temple on the Malaysian coast.  The hidden Karmavibhanga reliefs at Borobudur are now available on the Photo Dharma website Read More: The Karmavibhanga Reliefs on Photo Dharma  A large Temple complex featuring many unusual Thai folk-style reliefs of the Buddha in unusual postures. Read More: New Album showing unusual Buddha Relief Carvings on Photo Dharma  The last Dhamma Talk by the late Most Ven K. Sri Dhammananda, Chief Priest of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, on the 7th July 2006 at the Buddhist Maha Vihara, Kuala Lumpur entitled Human Life. Read More: Chief’s Last Dhamma Talk  I have just published two new web albums on the Photo Dharma website that I took recently at nearby Chinese temples. They were taken to try out my new camera which is advertised as being especially useful in low light conditions. Read More: Photographs of Two Chinese Temples  While I was in Wat Olak Madu I took numerous photographs of some of the modern artworks that are found in the Preaching Hall and Sima Hall, which has resulted in two new albums for the Photo Dharma website. Read More: Photographs of Paintings from Wat Olak Madu  At the end of March two good friends teamed up together for the first time and got me over to Kelantan in north-eastern Malaysia to photograph the old Thai temples there. The result is 5 new albums for the Photo Dharma website. Read More: New Photographs from Kelantan  We published 1,700 copies of the book at the time. Now this year, the original publisher of The Gentle Way, Inward Path in Penang, have reprinted the work again, this time in a print-run of 1,000 copies.  The puja that day was the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūjā. Kṣitigarbha is believed to look after the dead and visits the lower regions in order to save living beings. Indeed he has made a vow not to attain Nirvana until the hells are empty.  This is a collection of photographs from the Moral Uplifting Society in Bukit Mertajam. The Society is ecumenicist in outlook, and there are pictures of Confucius, Buddha, Lao-Tze, Jesus and Mohammad hung over the main shrine. Read More: Moral Uplifting Society, Bukit Mertajam  I had found some software that makes excellent, seamless panoramas, and I had visions of panoramas from the Bayon in Angkor that would, like their originals, be wall-long.  One of my all time heroes on the spiritual scene is the Vietnamese peace-activist and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2008 I traveled with a small group to Bangkok to attend some of his talks, and he was even more impressive than I had imagined, so mindful and still. Read More: Thich Nhat Hanh in Malaysia |
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