About the Goddess of Mercy and White Devil
The Japanese characters on the locomotive read 女神号慈海 or “Goddess Mercy of the Sea”.
Yamaga Toro Matsuri
The 千人灯籠踊り(thousand lantern dance) is the culmination of the two day Yamaga Toro Festival…
Yamaga Taiko
On August 15th and 16th a small town north of Kumamoto, Kyushu, celebrates their yearly summer matsuri.
100 faces of Bayon
Besides Angkor Wat Bayon is for me the most impressive Khmer temple in the temple-complex of Angkor.
Lotus Flowers and Joss Sticks
Cambodians are celebrating the arrival of the new moon at a buddhist temple in Phnom Penh. While I was walking around the …
Meeting Lara Croft
Ta Prohm is a popular temple within the vast Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. It is located a few kilometers east …
TAK BAT – Buddhist morning collection
Tak Bat is a traditional procession of monks through the town of Luang Prabang
Meeting Sonnie , a Buddhist Monk
Sabaidee, hello, how are you, where you come from ? I was suprised that a young monk was talking to me as …
Sabaidee- Saying Hello
Sabaidee was for me the most heard word in the last days, as it is the greeting phrase used by everybody all …
Funeral Ceremony in Laos
I was strolling around Vientiane the last two days and happened to witness several buddhist funerals at one temple.