We are looking forward to the upcoming Lotus Lantern festival at the end of this month. It is a celebration of Buddah's birthday and involves a parade of thousands of lanterns, as well as tradional korean performances. We went to a Buddhist museum this week and then stopped by the main Buddhist temple in Seoul to check out the preparations for the festival. Of course, I had just put my camera away when a small Buddhist monk walked up to the kids as we were leaving and shook each of their hands and made donald duck noises at them.
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There were many volunteers sitting at tables outside of the
temple making hundreds of lanterns out of "hanji"
(traditional homemade Korean paper). |
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| Adding designs with colored paper. |
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| Jogyesa Temple |
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