Prayer requests
The Buddhist temple we visited yesterday with Professor Ma and his wife Xiao is a functioning worship community, not a museum. Such temples are for veneration of the Buddha; but in addition to shrines, there are gardens and walkways, so the area is more like a park than a house of worship.
Worshippers make prayer requests by wrapping red ribbons around a particular tree as this woman is doing (see below).
I was a professor of curriculum and instruction at East Tennessee State University and am now in emeritus status. Currently, I teach English composition part-time at George Mason University. I have taught in Cincinnati, Turkey, China and the Czech Republic.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
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