Saturday, November 07, 2009

The Buddhapadipa Temple

This is about buddhism.

Sort of.

Recently, i've been writing about buddhist monks for an RS project. But, before this, we went on a school trip to the Buddhapadipa Temple in Wimbledon.

As a general rule, i like school trips. Whatever they are, they have to be better than actual school.

This trip was... interesting.

To be honest, it was ages ago... i can't remember that much about it, except that i fell over and a buddhist monk saw my knickers, then laughed.

But as i was looking for pictures to stick in my project, i found these. I thought you might like to see them.




This is the temple. It's pretty.



This is a pond. It's also pretty.




Like very small children, we were fascinated by the fact we could see our reflections in the pond.



This is a parrot.


This is Jesus. I'm not sure what he was doing there.



These are my friends, racing up some steps



Here they are again, once they reached the top of the steps.

So there you go. Another pointless blog.


1 comment:

  1. Hello,

    Allow me to present myself: I am Léo, trainnee for the French travel guide collection: Seriousguide
    Seriousguide are collaborative travel guides, indeed the information they provide comes from personal travellers experiences related on our website: www.seriousguide.fr
    The last issues we published are Lisbon, Le monde à Paris and Barcelona. Our next guide is on London.
    Our website is opened and travels published by Internet users represent an essential information for our printed guides.
    However, we also notice interesting contains from others blogs.
    That’s why we pre-select the Buddhapadipa Temple in London that you seemed to have enjoy a lot. So we sent one of our correspondents on the spot to check out every details we needed to publish it in our London Seriousguide.
    If we decide to keep this activity for our guide, we would like to quote your pseudonym as our first source for this activity.
    I want to emphasis on the fact that we are not going to use the text you wrote for your blog, but we want to mention you since it’s thanks to you that we found this interesting information.
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    Léo

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