Bathing Buddha

[hkdigit]

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To commemorate the birth of the Buddha, the bather scoops up water from the ceremonial basin and carefully sprinkles water onto the head and shoulders of the baby Buddha statue, making sure that none spills out of the basin. This action also reminds people to use Buddhism’s teachings to cleanse their minds and bodies.

Photoblog Ref:
http://hkdigit.blogspot.com/2007/05/bathing-buddha.html

[TByrne]

Weirdly charming. Or charmingly weird. I think the last one in particular implies a haunting ambiguity.

Ted

[nghtrydr23]

nice pics, thanx for sharing, does bring back childhood memories celebrating such religuous events...

[hkdigit]

Thanks Ted and Aaron for comments :^)